Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Liberalism Is a Mental Disorder

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Fails WP:BOOKCRIT. No WP:SIGCOV and article is just a plot summary. मल्ल (talk) 00:55, 24 May 2025 (UTC)

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*Delete. I couldn't find sufficient coverage of this book to justify the article. The single source it has is the NYT bestseller list, which is meaningless, since every book ever is a NYT bestseller. Cortador (talk) 09:50, 24 May 2025 (UTC)

• Keep. Notability has now been established. Cortador (talk) 13:41, 24 May 2025 (UTC)

• Comment. Per WP:NBOOK, appearing on the New York Times bestseller list counts as one of the two non-trivial independent published works about the book that we need. The book also gets a paragraph in [https://www.economist.com/books-and-arts/2005/10/06/fools-gold this article] in The Economist, and is briefly discussed in [https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2009/08/03/party-of-one-2 this profile] of Savage in the New Yorker. There are also passing mentions in the New York Times [https://archive.nytimes.com/artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/22/michael-savage-to-write-two-thrillers/] [https://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/15/books/arts/arts-briefly-a-youth-imprint-not-necessarily-christian.html] and in at least a dozen or so academic books about the American right. This is the kind of book where we're never going to see traditional "reviews" in reliable publications, but it does seem to have been discussed. I don't think what I've found is quite enough yet to satisfy NBOOK, but it's close. MCE89 (talk) 10:20, 24 May 2025 (UTC)

• Keep per the significant coverage in multiple independent reliable sources. Wikipedia:Notability (books)#Criteria says:

  A book is presumed notable if it verifiably meets, through reliable sources, at least one of the following criteria:

  1. The book has been the subject of two or more non-trivial published works appearing in sources that are independent of the book itself. This can include published works in all forms, such as newspaper articles, other books, television documentaries, bestseller lists, and reviews. This excludes media re-prints of press releases, flap copy, or other publications where the author, its publisher, agent, or other self-interested parties advertise or speak about the book.

  Sources

  1. {{cite news |last=Rubin |first=Jeff |date=2005-05-30 |title=Enjoy Conservative Books at the Beach |magazine=Human Events |volume=61 |number=19 |pages=400–401 |id={{EBSCOhost|17296644}} }}

     The review notes: "In his new book, Liberalism Is a Mental Disorder, he lays it on the line: "You will not have a nation," he says, "unless you awaken to the reality that America has become pacified; America has become feminized; and America is being compromised from without and within. You cannot let them get away with this. Can America be saved? Is it too late? I believe that with God's will and with your determination to confront the mental disorder of liberalism whenever and wherever it is found, America can both survive and thrive." In this book, he shows how.  In this third installment of his bold, biting and bestselling trilogy, Savage offers provocative and practical ways to reclaim our social, political and cultural integrity. Through a compelling narrative of current trends and events, Savage chronicles the continued assault on the sacred pillars of American life (the U.S. Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the Ten Commandments, the Sanctity of Marriage) by the High Priests of Ultra-Liberalism. In each chapter, the Savage Spotlight of Truth casts its brilliant light on the tactics used by liberals to spread their leftist agenda. Savage follows his analysis with specific actions, arguments and recommendations for action that the reader can ingest to counter the radical left."

  2. {{cite news |last=Sanders |first=Ken |date=2005 |title=Liberalism Is a Mental Disorder by Michael Savage |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7QIEAQAAIAAJ |magazine=Z Magazine |via=Google Books |pages=56–57 |accessdate=2025-05-24 }}

     The review notes: "Want support with that accusation? You're reading the wrong book. Savage's ludicrous hyperbole is offensive not only to those who consider themselves liberal (a term which, by the way, Savage never defines), it is likely offensive to anyone who survived or lost loved ones in Hitler's holocaust. ... In Chapter One , "More Patton , Less Patent Leather," Savage blames liberals and their " trickle-down PC stupidity" for Bush's debacle in Iraq. Savage quotes "one lieutenant colonel who shall remain nameless," as advising his troops on the eve of battle to "tread lightly" in Iraq because of its historical and cultural significance. For Savage, this nameless lieutenant colonel typifies how "liberalism has so warped the sensibilities of Mr. and Mrs. America," that Bush got "trapped trying to fight a politically correct war." There is (at least) one problem with Savage's example of liberalism's weakening U.S. military resolve: the "lieutenant colonel who shall remain nameless" was none other than Lieutenant Colonel Tim Collins, commanding officer of the First Battalion of the Royal Irish ..."

  3. {{cite magazine |date=April–May 2006 |title=Liberalism Is a Mental Disorder |url=https://www.audiofilemagazine.com/reviews/read/22483/liberalism-is-a-mental-disorder-by-michael-savage-read-by-mark-warner/ |magazine=AudioFile |accessdate=2025-05-24 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20250524094507/https://www.audiofilemagazine.com/reviews/read/22483/liberalism-is-a-mental-disorder-by-michael-savage-read-by-mark-warner/ |archivedate=2025-05-24 }}

     The review notes: "Reader Mark Warner clearly understands Savage's style and seeks to represent it as closely as possible. Warner comes close to capturing Savage's outrage, irony, and humor, but he doesn't capture it completely. Nevertheless, Warner's reading is clear and even-paced."

  4. {{cite news |date=2005-10-06 |title=Fools' gold: As America becomes more polarised, its political writing is getting worse |url=https://www.economist.com/books-and-arts/2005/10/06/fools-gold |newspaper=The Economist |accessdate=2025-05-24 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20240420001428/https://www.economist.com/books-and-arts/2005/10/06/fools-gold |archivedate=2024-04-20 }}

     The article notes: "An altogether less agreeable polemicist is Michael Savage, whose latest book is called “Liberalism is a Mental Disorder”. He calls homosexual activists “brown shorts” and thinks Mr Bush has messed up by not killing nearly enough people in Iraq. He believes that the United Nations and other shadowy international groups are planning to “over-ride our democracy” and replace the Bill of Rights with “a new, watered-down bill of wrongs from the new, ruling bureaucrats”. He wonders why Republican leaders have not warned people about this. He uses the term “village idiots” to describe a body—the Democratic Leadership Council—whose name he cannot spell."

  5. {{cite news |last=Graff |first=Amy |date=2020-02-14 |title=The most commonly stolen book at the San Francisco Public Library may surprise you |url=https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/most-commonly-stolen-book-library-Michael-Savage-15045259.php |newspaper=San Francisco Chronicle |accessdate=2025-05-24 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20240723123914/https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/most-commonly-stolen-book-library-Michael-Savage-15045259.php |archivedate=2024-07-23 }}

     The article notes: ""The one author our head of collections has to check regularly and purchase new copies of our books by Michael Savage," library spokesperson Kate  Patterson wrote in an email.  "We check once a year to see if all the copies are gone and reorder. We have moved to e-book for most of them, so we can ensure copies are around.  The main title that disappears quickly is 'Liberalism Is A Mental Disorder.'" ... Released in April 2005, 'Liberalism is a Mental Disorder' was on the New York Times best-seller list for three weeks and "attacks the insanities and inanities of extreme leftist thought.""

  There is sufficient coverage in reliable sources to allow Liberalism Is a Mental Disorder to pass Wikipedia:Notability#General notability guideline, which requires "significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject".

  Cunard (talk) 10:25, 24 May 2025 (UTC)

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