Pick a Better Country

Ken Hamblin has been called the black Rush Limbaugh, but it might be better to call Limbaugh the white Ken Hamblin. Liberals will find this book hard-going, but it ought to be required reading for anyone concerned about the plight of black America. A former Army newspaper photographer and film producer-turned-newspaper-columnist and talk-radio host, Hamblin is a tough-minded commentator, unafraid to speak his mind about matters of race and class in America. Liberals, in his view, aren't just liberals; they're "egg-sucking dog liberals" whose patronizing concern for blacks has led to a debilitating inability of many blacks to do for themselves. In Pick a Better Country, which is a mix of autobiography and polemic, Hamblin fulminates against a familiar roster of evils--drugs, welfare, unwed mothers--interspersing his commentary with anecdotes from his life that illustrate how he persevered, and succeeded, in America.