Reviews for Right Turns: Unconventional Lessons from a Controversial Life

The average rating for Right Turns: Unconventional Lessons from a Controversial Life based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2009-04-11 00:00:00 Eric Poole A decent book, but somewhat uneven in interest level. It is, at its core, an autobiography of Michael Medved. The book starts out, and is probably most interesting, describing his childhood through college years at Yale, including his firsthand experiences with personas such as John Kerry, Hillary Rodham, Bill Clinton, and many other current day notables. As the book progresses the story begins to drag into less interesting reading, although addressing issues no less important to Michael's life story, concerning his increasing personal involvement with Orthodox Judism, re-establishing decaying synagogues, etc. This leads Michael to an increasingly conservative social viewpoint, which he gets the opportunity to voice increasingly through his books and his movie reviews. It is his social conservativism that ultimately brings him to the realization that the Democratic Party, to which he and his family devoted so much time and energy to in his earlier years, no longer reflects the viewpoints he holds true. Fortunately, the book becomes more interesting in the final chapters as Michael describes his tenure as a national movie reviewer on the PBS series Sneak Previews, and the reaction to his socially conservative reviews by Hollywood and his fellow movie reviewers (who, for the most part, never accept Michael as one of their colleagues), and the path that has led him to being a nationally syndicated, conservative radio talk show host.

Review # 2 was written on 2019-11-23 00:00:00 Josephine Stolark An autobiographer of a Vietnam War protesting liberal who did A 180 degree turn into a right wing talk show host conservative. He's also the guy who rated movies.