from the cover:  ".... Naomi Wolf compels us to face the way our free America is under assault.  She warns us -- with the straight-to-fellow-citizens urgency of one of Thomas Paine's revolutionary pamphlets -- that we have little time to lose if our children are to live in real freedom.Wolf shows that there are ten classic steps dictators or would-be dictators always take when they wish to close down an open society.  Each of those ten steps is now underway in the United States Today."