How to Destroy a Village: What the Clintons Taught a Seventeen Year Old

This book should be read by any person who votes, or will be voting within the next 5 years. Jason Fodeman has taken published facts from both print and visual media and organized them according to topic and content. He then has expertly asked some very pointed questions that all of us should be asking ourselves. Is there a double standard for public figures in regards to values, morals, and ethics. Why do "adults" dismiss or look the other way for public figures? How can adults expect youth to not do the same? Just how unbiased is the media? Finally, Fodeman outlines why those 25 years and younger hold the views they do when it comes to politics, morals, values, and ethics. Anyone who would disagree needs to step foot is a high school or college classroom and really listen to this generation. Fodeman has the courage to tell it like it is, to tell what the american youth is trying to say, but very few "adults" are willing to listen to or accept.

This first book by an unusually erudite young intellectual is predictably his initial step in a career of inflicting righteous outrage upon public officials who fail their sworn duties, though this career will likely be part time, since the author's professional goal is in medicine.From the outset, as I turned the pages of this compendium of outrages during the opprobrium of the Clinton years, I was reminded of numerous mendacities I had forgotten - the mind is very forgiving - but I am thankful that someone kept track. In this case, that someone must have started keeping track at about age eight or so!The book's setting is a reminder of those values that all parents should imbue in their children, and it seems that the author remembers well how his parents taught those values. Then he reminds us just how the Clintons profaned those values. I found especially interesting his inclusion of consistency (and proper inconsistency, thus escaping the hobgoblin curse) among those values.And Mr. Fodeman is quite careful about distinguishing between outright crimes committed by the Clintons and those that might be against the law. Sometimes, in fact, I think he tended to be overly forgiving on such knife-edge distinctions.All in all, and despite some rather insignificant grammatical glitches, this is a very good read, and despite his complaints, he maintains a fine degree of civility. I expect to hear more from this promising young author.

As a mom raising three boys during the nightmarish Clinton years, I welcome this "tome" describing my years as a car-pooling mom lunging for the radio to turn it off before the kids were subjected to the latest news of "cavorting Bill" or "his co-dependent Hillary". I remember telling my sons that "this is not the way men, especially presidents, act, and women with integrity do not tolerate this behavior, even to acquire power". This book is an opportunity to read about those horrors from my kids' perspective.The author is bright, and it's obvious that he had his eyes open even though the dominant media insisted on dispensing spin in lock-step with the party line. Jason Fodeman is no limosine liberal.

A MUST READ book by young Westport CT author Jason D. Fodeman...it is a fantastic book that should be read..."How to Destroy a Village" What the Clintons taught a 17 year old...I recommend this book to all I truly believe this is a young man who shows us just what the Clinton legacy has put in the minds of our children...Truth can be altered, money at any cost and what we have strived to teach our children isn't always what they learn. He has written a phenominal book. What more evidence do we need to see that the Clinton legacy has tarnished the young people of this country. We as adults can go back and forth on a day to day basis, one side defending while the other appalled, but when a young person actually takes a year out of his active life to let the American people see just what an effect the former President has had on him, how can we close a blind eye? I truly believe that Jason will get more than a few people to sit up and take notice.What a shame the other reviews are about their own agenda's and not the brilliant work put forth by a high school student who was curious as to why his parents taught him one set of values and the Clinton's showed him another!..Try being a teen and weighing those two options!

This book takes a look at an aspect of politics we usually don't think about---- how the actions of politicians teach children lessons contrary to those taught by most parents. The book presents a well-researched look at various scandals during the Clinton Administration, governmental and media reaction to them, and, most importantly, the subtle messages they sent to children about accountability and truth.What is truly amazing is that this book was written by a 17 year old high school student. The perspective is one we don't often see. Although my own political posture does not mirror the author's, I must agree with his overall premise. He has made some very thoughtful observations about American values.The book is easy to read, and I highly recommend it.