Fight Back and Win: My Thirty-year Fight Against Injustice--and How You Can Win Your Own Battles

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FIVE STARS***** BRAVO GLORIA ALLRED

Should be titled "fight back and make me richer"

Gloria is one of the top lawyers in America.

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The World-renowned women's rights attorney and civil rights advocate shares empowering life lessons learned from her career fighting on the front lines for victims' rights

Fearless lawyer, feminist, activist, television and radio commentator, warrior, advocate, and winner -- Gloria Allred is all of these things and more. Voted by her peers as one of the best lawyers in America, and described by Time as "one of the nation's most effective advocates of family rights and feminist causes," Allred has devoted her career to fighting for civil rights across boundaries of gender, race, age, sexual orientation, and social class. She has taken on countless institutions to promote equality, including the Boy Scouts, the Friars Club, and the United States Senate, often drawing from her creativity and wit to achieve results. And as the attorney for numerous high-profile clients -- she has represented Nicole Brown Simpson's family, actress Hunter Tylo, and Amber Frey, Scott Peterson's girlfriend -- Allred has helped victims assert and protect their rights.

Throughout her extraordinary memoir, in such chapters as "To Conquer, You Must First Conquer Yourself" and "Don't Be Victimized Twice," Allred offers colorful -- sometimes shocking -- examples of self-empowerment from her personal and professional life. Presenting nearly fifty of her most memorable cases, she takes us deep inside the justice system to show how it's possible to win, even in the face of staggering odds.

Allred opens our eyes not only to the significant positive strides we've made in recent decades, but more important, to how much further we still have to go to empower all members of society -- especially women, minorities, and others who are deprived of their rights. Fight Back and Win is a powerful testament to Gloria Allred's trailblazing career and the battles she has fought alongside countless brave individuals to win justice for us all.

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Thank You Gloria.......2007-09-19

Thank You Gloria Allred!
Well written and great insight! She reminds us all of the great challenges women have to overcome to achieve equal status in our society.
I would vote for HER for President of the United States in an instant!

FIVE STARS***** BRAVO GLORIA ALLRED.......2007-09-03

A MUST READ FOR ALL*****
GLORIA ALLRED HAS ACHIEVED WORLD RECOGNITION FOR HER PURSUIT OF JUSTICE AND EQUALITY*****
HER BOOK SHOULD BE 'REQUIRED READING' FOR ALL.

Should be titled "fight back and make me richer".......2007-08-16

Just a venue for further self-aggrandizement. Gloria Allred has made her self rich by taking on such villians as childrens haircutting salons who charged different rates for boys and girls and fast food restaurants who's employees refuse to hand out discount coupons. In the process she is millionaire sucking money out of her victims forcing them to settle rather than endure long drawn out court proceedings and bad publicity.

And in the end her clients get a pittance in settlements and she is a millionaire. I would be curious to see where her clients are today. Way to go Gloria. Your legacy is undeniable. You are everything that gives lawyers a bad name.

Gloria is one of the top lawyers in America........2006-11-05

This book was very inspirational and a interesting read. I would highly recommend it to anyone. Gloria is a very strong woman who is determined to fight for justice. She's a breath of fresh air. Her book was excellent.

Not worthy of the subject.......2006-08-18

The best part of the book: Introduction by Lisa Bloom, Allred's daughter. We got a glimpse of the woman behind the media. Second best was Chapter 1, Allred's own all-too-brief biography.

The rest of the book consisted of a rather smug collection of "wins" in the diverse areas of civil and criminal law. Allred reminds me of a fierce mother bear, fiercely protecting her cubs. She'll go far more than the extra mile to win justice for clients and causes, especially those related to discrimination and sexual assault or harassment.

It is important to understand that Allred thinks (at least in this book) like a prosecutor. Putting away the bad guys is good, she says, and good for society. At one point she says prison is designed for punishment as well as rehabilitation -- but from everything I read,today's prisons are all about punishment, and about making angry people even angrier. Allred never does the math: $20,000 a year to keep someone in prison, but zero dollars available for mental health and drug rehab for many.

Major disappointments:

(1) Allred never considers what happens when women make false accusations against men. I've been friends with 2 males who have been falsely accused of harassment and (in one case) spousal abuse. Both were so astounded they didn't take steps to protect themselves. They were left bitter and hostile to women, when eariler they were strong supporters of feminism.

She also rants about exposure of women who come forward with accusations. For example, Kobe Bryant's lawyers raised questions about whether evidence was consistent with having multiple partners in 3 days. Yet this question is legitimate: any decent defense lawyer will seek evidence for alternative interpretations of the evidence. Accused men and women have rights, too.

(2) Allred suggests women take self-defense courses and save up for legal fees. But realistically, why not suggest that women use some common sense? One of Marv Albert's female accusers complained that Albert had harassed her -- but then entered his room a year later to "help him send a fax."

Come on, folks! This gets lame. Why didn't she call a hotel bellman or security guard as an escort? Why not suggest that parents (and hotels) train young women, "Don't go into a guy's room alone unless you have solid reason to believe he's trustworthy." We teach college students to ask for a "safe walk" to their cars at night. The same principle applies here.

(3) Finally, as I read, I became increasingly curious about who pays for Allred's clients. Did Amber pay Allred's fees on a massage therapist's salary? Did the District Attorney use tax money to help a witness for the prosecution (when defendants rarely have adequate funds to do the same for their witnesses)? Or did Allred accept the case pro bono to reap publicity, not to mention fees to "negotiate" Amber's book contract?

All these approaches are (as far as I know) legal and ethical. But we'd get a better sense of how justice is done if we knew whether prosecutors actually recommended Allred to the witnesses and/or paid her legal fees. And if someone else paid, we'd get a whole new perspective on alliances in each case.

It's hard to believe these clients just picked up the phone book and saw "Allred" under A's. Even if these witnesses saw Allred's name in the paper, I would like to know.

A much better book:The Defense Is Ready: Life In The Trenches Of Criminal Law by Leslie Abramson and Richard Flaste. Written nearly ten years ago, it's a thoughtful look at the justice system, even when you don't agree with everything Abramson has said and done.

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World-renowned women's rights attorney and civil rights advocate Gloria Allred shares

empowering life lessons learned while fighting on the front lines for victims' rights

Voted by her peers as one of the best lawyers in America, and described by Time as "one of the nation's most effective advocates of family rights and feminist causes," Allred has devoted her career to fighting for civil rights across boundaries of gender, race, age, sexual orientation, and social class. She has taken on countless institutions to promote equality, including the Boy Scouts, the Friars Club, and the United States Senate, often drawing from her creativity and wit to achieve results. And as the attorney for numerous high-profile clients, Allred has helped victims assert and protect their rights.

Presenting nearly fifty of her most memorable cases, she takes us deep inside the justice system to show how it's possible to win even in the face of staggering odds, while revealing how much further we still have to go to empower all members of society. Fight Back and Win is a powerful testament to Gloria Allred's trailblazing career and the battles she has fought alongside countless brave individuals to win justice for us all.

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Gloria is an inspiration she sets forth Morality, Equality, Human Rights and makes you want to stand up and FIGHT for your rights! Dont Back Down!! Let Life's lessons guide you to others awareness and resolutions!

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I bought this book for my sister. She has five kids ( all boys) and is a elementry school teacher, so she does not have much time to read adult books. Having the book on CD let her realx and enjoy her time in the car after and before picking up the kids. She said it was very good book and was amazed at all the things Gloria Allred has over come. If I had bought her the hardcover I don't think she would have been able to enjoy the book as much as she did.

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"A lie, told often enough becomes the truth".......2007-07-23

"A lie, told often enough becomes the truth"-----Lenin

Cashill has a Ph.D. in American studies from Purdue, and is a former Fulbright professor in France. This hard hitting, captivating and well written book focusses on how radical naturalism, sexual hedonism, Marxism, and multiculturalism have sabotaged our moral culture; and the hoaxes from Piltdown man to global warming. Eventually there will come someone who catches the lies, enabling us to discern the truth; Cashill fills this book with people who've brought us to this difficult time. He backs up his investigation with substantial end notes.

Chapter One invites us into the world of the "new morality"; created by the likes of Michael Moore, Ward Churchill, and the many other intellectual liberals who follow this road to oblivion. These are the men of fraud and deceit; of a man centered world.

Chapter Two, though a bit drawn out, examines the great lie of communism, socialism, and Marxism. Marxism has disguised itself in the liberals (sorry, "progressives") of America. These radical beliefs are so strong in being right that it overrides the conscious: leading to the shameless discrediting and proving the west wrong; the lawyers new strategy of getting off (foreign) criminals; the hyperboles, false reporting, and deliberate ignorance of the atrocities world-wide, and apologists attitude in journalism; and Hollywood and the great classical writers influence. Cashill also takes a look at histories influences: such as the coming of communism, Marxism, and progressivism's roots. "The progressive mind is a many-turned thing."

Chapter Three deals with multiculturalism, and the "no objective truths" that is postmodernism; and the relativism the teachers and professors are filling are kids heads with, for example: the early cultural falsehoods of the black man, and blaming the Anglo-Saxon for their ills. Who cares about the truth if there is an ideology to defend. God or man, that is the choice.

Chapter Four: the book would not be complete without mentioning Darwinian naturalism, and the spawn: the fraud of Haeckel, Hitler's Nazism, Mendel, Gould, and of late, Dawkins. Ehrlich's population control and environmentalism blessed us with his predecessor Al Gore. We can thank the eradication of DDT for the progressive environmentalism movement (a sore subject with me); many millions of lives have been lost from malaria.

Chapter Five brings us into the social engineering of Margaret Sanger's Planned Parenthood and the fall out: Margaret Mead and Alfred Kinsey. Many of these propagators and hoaxes still blindly live on today.

"When their own dreams fail, as those dreams inevitably do, progressives are more likely to either ignore or romanticize the past than to reevaluate it."

Good accompaniments: Dinesh D'Souza's "What's So Great About America" and Michael Crichton's "State of Fear"

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Fantastic.......2007-02-23

A tour de force from one of our most overlooked prose stylists and one of the strongest intellects in the conservative movement. The one and two star reviews are liberal sour grapes. It is true that if you read TNR or The Nation, you will not like this book.

You Can't Tell A Book By Its Cover.......2007-02-17

Upon reading HOODWINKED an observation by the anthropologist Franz Boas came to mind:

"We could read our newspapers [and books] with much greater satisfaction if our language, like the Indian Kwakiutl idiom, compelled us to say whether a report is based on self-experience, or inference, or on hearsay, or whether the reporter has dreamed it."

HOODWINKED, published by Nelson Current, the political imprint of Thomas Norton, Inc., a publisher of Christian books, is authored by a PhD in American Studies from Purdue, winner of both a Fulbright professorship and film documentary awards. Certainly Dr. Cashill has appropriate "self-experience" to argue his thesis that:

"Control of the cultural establishment is just one reason why fraud plagues the political left. The less obvious but more fundamental reason is that progressive authors and their cultural support groups live in a world where God, if not fully dead, is irrelevant. By default, progressives tend to ground their morality in the shaky materialist philosophy introduced by the Greek philosopher Epicurus and popularized by Darwin and Marx."

Looking for compelling evidence of the left-wing conspiracy Cashill warns us of, I read on to his coverage of the Sacco-Vanzetti affair (which I concentrate on in this review). He introduces it with the section heading: A COUPLE OF WOPS IN A JAM. Although, as Cashill notes, there are dozens of books, including six volumes of published trial transcripts (Henry Holt, 1927) and extraordinarily detailed internet site accounts (e.g. Court TV's CRIME LIBRARY), Cashill relies largely on Robert H. Montgomery's SACCO-VANZETTI: THE MURDER AND THE MYTH (Western Islands, 1965) while marginalizing, tainting or dismissing those whose analysis differs from his such as then Harvard law professor and later Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter's THE CASE OF SACCO AND VANZETTI - A CRITICAL ANALYSIS FOR LAWYERS AND LAYMEN (Little Brown, 1927), the views of later Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., and the proclamation by Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis in 1977, the 50th anniversary of the executions of Sacco and Vanzetti "that any stigma and disgrace should be forever removed from the names of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti."

Instead, Dr. Cashill points us to the evidence against them: the "guns, bullets, and shotgun shells that would match those used in the two crimes" and gives short shrift to the concept of "reasonable doubt" and the ample alternative case put forward, for example, by Frankfurter. [Credible forensic evidence is still being debated for and against Sacco as the murderer (cf. J.E. Starrs, JOURNAL OF FORENSIC EVIDENCE, 1986, 31, 630-54; Henry Lee, FAMOUS CRIMES REVISITED, Strong Books, 2001). Cashill decries the "Manichean divide" he claims liberals set up, managing in the same breath, to complain about the "standard Democratic stump speech" of John Edwards in the 2004 U.S. presidential race, and that "progressives worldwide have historically shown little faith in the wisdom of their fellow citizens."

Dr. Cashill has not relied on "hearsay" for his rendering of events, but rather, has imposed his own Manichean divide on them. His account leaves out or glosses over what made the Sacco-Vanzetti affair a cause celebre world wide and not simply among those wishing to promote, or being duped by, a Marxist agenda and propaganda campaign, as he claims was the case. The trial of these two Italian anarchists was defined by judicial, prosecutorial, defense and juror errors,submerged in an atmosphere of very scary times in which an anarchist under FBI custody crashed out the 14th floor to the street below, a murderous bomb exploded on Wall Street and another in front of the home of an attorney general. Hence, contrary to Cashill's certainties, and to the detriment of his overarching thesis that we are hoodwinked, it is most unlikely that the many questions about the guilt or innocence of Sacco and Vanzetti will ever be answered. That is, unless one dreams it.

Left Out--The Truth Shall Make You Flee.......2006-10-13

Looking for a well written, concise, documented expose of leftist-liberal political/social/historical/academic prevarications over the last century. Look no further. This is the book. It deserves a Pulitzer Prize. It drives a stake through the rotten and dishonest heart of so called "progressive" ideology of the so called "intellectual elites".

IF you buy this book you are indeed hoodwinked.......2006-10-05

This guy is so intent on disproving leftist theories, that he actually misstates the facts. It was never proven, that Bartomelo Vanzetti had Allasendro Beredialli's (the guards) gun. It was however widely known that Berdeilli's widow cried: "If only he had brought his gun that day!"
THe fact is that Cashill did not do his homework and makes unfair and inaccurate statments.

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