The Overton Window by Glenn Beck

415 pages

"A plan to destroy America, a hundred years in the making, is about to be unleashed...can it be stopped?

There is a powerful technique called the Overton Window that can shape our lives, our laws, and our future. It manipulates public perception so that ideas once seen as radical become acceptable over time. Move the Window and you can change the debate. Change the debate and you change the country...Now, in the face of a catastrophic terrorist attack, an apathetic young man is plunged into the maelstrom of political discourse and basic survival as he races to uncover the conspirators behind the destruction, and to save both the woman he loves and the individual freedoms he once took for granted." -Back Cover

This was a decent thriller. The idea that many of the ideas in this book are based on real things and possibilities makes it even more so. It's taken to the extreme, but that's the point. Glenn Beck's always trying to get America to wake up to the loss of our freedoms and the country that our Founding Fathers established. You convince people to give up some of their constitutional rights in the name of security. You blame school shootings on the guns and not the people, etc.. Slowly, you shift that Window until the conversation/debate is what you want it to be to further your agenda. Noah's dad is a real piece of work. I didn't know there's a sequel to this when I finished it, so I was a little disappointed that it left you hanging somewhat, but then again, so did Agenda 21. It's probably more fitting that way because then the reader gets to "write" the ending. It's like saying, "Hey, it's not too late to change things but it will require action."