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| - His best-selling book, All Roads Less Travelled Lead to New Jersey was released in 1978 and was followed by a myriad of other books, all pretty much with the same theme: "If your life sucks, it's your fault; quit bitching and get off your lazy ass and do something about it." Given such a simplistic philosophy, popular with wealthy God-Fearing Republicans, practitioners of Fundagelical Christianity, Prosperity Wicca and those of similar ilk, it is not surprising that the book only became a best-seller in 1983, after Ronnie Raygun came to power in the Great Fascist Revolution of 1980. It was followed by a number of sequels. All of these books were praised by people who already had it made and could afford all the real therapy they wanted -- and who did not want to give one thin dime to help anyone else. However, Peck was popular across the political spectrum. He also wrote People of the Lie: Help for Idiots Who Have Gotten Themselves Possessed by the Ghost of Hoobert Heever, which discusses exorcism as a way of dealing with right-wing fanatics. He also wrote a book about creating communities as a way to pursue peace. This book is called A Different Drum: How Rolling Your Own and Smoking Dope with Others can Make Everything, Like So Mellow, Man.
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