THUNDEROUS ACCLAIM FOR RUSH LIMBAUGH'S
THE WAY THINGS OUGHT TO BE

"OUTRAGEOUS AND IMPUDENT... RUSH LIMBAUGH IS THE LOUDEST NOISE IN THE CRUCIAL CONSERVATIVE AMERICA IS NOW HAVING WITH ITSELF...."
- Time

"FUNNY AND DEVASTATINGLY ON TARGET...."
- Milwaukee Sentinel

"AN INSTANT BESTSELLER...."
- Newsweek

"FASCINATING... LIMBAUGH, WHATEVER YOUR OPINION OF HIS POLITICS, IS A CONSUMATE ENTERTAINER."
- Fortune

"A JOLT OF CHAMPAGNE...."
- William F. Buckley, Jr.

"RIGHT STUFF....  Rarely has there been a radio/TV commentator who consistently makes sense on so many subjects: taxes, environmentalism, animal rights, crime, education, the inner cities, extreme feminism, condoms in the schools, government regulation and Congress.  LIMBAUGH'S HARD-HITTING HUMOR WILL HAVE YOU LAUGHING OUT LOUD; YOUR VOICE WILL CRACK FROM SAYING AGAIN AND AGAIN, 'RIGHT ON!'"
- Malcolm S. Forbes, Jr., Forbes

"IMPORTANT READING FOR CITIZENS, JOURNALISTS, AND POLITICIANS STRUGGLING TO GRASP THE CULTURAL CIVIL WAR THAT SEEMS TO BE RAGING...."
- Washington Post Book World

"On the air!  On the tube!  One the page!  It's Rush Limbaugh, multimedia unicultural superstar!...  The Way Things Ought to Be is a work for its time.  Despite Bill Clinton's victory, right-wing populism, an American perennial, is in bloom, and at the moment Mr. limbaugh is its gaudiest flower."
- The New York Time Book Review

Rush Limbaugh, America's #1 radio talk-show host, bounded to the top of the bestseller lists with the record-breaking The Way Things Ought to Be, a New York Times bestseller for a year and, remarkably, #1 for 25 weeks and counting!  The fastest-selling book in the country, The Way Things Ought to Be has sold, as one of Rush's devoted callers informed him, "better than ice water in hell."  Rush's syndicated radio show reaches more than 20 million listeners per week and his syndicated TV show blankets 99 percent of America.  Now, this consummate entertainer and provocative politcal commentator, whom conservatives love and liberals love to hate - this "harmless little fuzzball" who delights in being called "The Most Dangerous Man in America" - is about to make publishing history again with SEE, I TOLD YOU SO.

The Democrats may be in the White House - but even President Clinton can't ruin this country in only four years, proclaims Rush.

Conservativism's most outspoken champion, Rush leads the charge to embrace and defend the fundamental values that have shaped the American character: belief in God, devotion to family, law and order, self-reliance, rugged individualism, commitment to excellence, rewarding achievment, and... the notion that the woman is always right.  Not coincidentally, notes Rush, these values that cause liberals to have conniptions are the same concepts that contitute modern conservatism, which is contantly being distorted by the dominant media.  But what underlies the liberal agenda of political correctness, multiculturalism, environmentalism, the assault on family values, radical feminism, and even Bill Clinton's tax bill?  Desperation! says Rush - a mentality of chaos, frenzy, hysteria, despair, and total panic.  Ever the optimist, Rush sees the "pernicious liberal movement" as a philosophy whose inevitable demise will lead us back to the values that make America great.

As no less a liberal than Ted Koppel, quoted in Vanity Fait, said, "What [Limbaugh] clearly has become over the last two or three years is something of an icon to millions of conservative listeners around the country.  I think it would be too easy to dismiss his a being irrelevant to the shaping of opinion in this country today.  He's very smart, he does his homework.  He is well informed.  And you ignore him at your peril."

RUSH LIMBAUGH was born in Cape Girardeau Missouri, a "quintessential Midwestern small town," where he fell in love with radio in elementary school.  He became a Top-40 deejay in the 1960s and held various other jobs before finding his true calling as a radio talk show host at KFBK in Sacramento.  In 1988 his radio show went national, and it can now be heard in over 616 markets across the country.  Limbaugh makes his home in New York City and divides his time between his daily radio show, speaking engagements, and an upcoming nationally syndicated television show.