Obama’s Challenge – Book by Robert Kuttner

One of our best progressive thinkers explains how Obama must be a transformative president-or a failed one.Barack Obama approaches the presidency at a critical moment in American history, facing simultaneous crises of war, the environment, health care, but most especially in the economy.

In Obama’s Challenge, Robert Kuttner argues that the nation’s first black president could join the ranks of a small handful of previous presidents who have been truly transformative, succeeding in fundamentally changing our economy, society, and democracy for the better.

Robert Kuttner is cofounder and coeditor of the American Prospect magazine, as well as a Distinguished Senior Fellow of the think tank Demos. He was a longtime columnist for Business Week, and continues to write columns in the Boston Globe. He is the author of Obama’s Challenge, The Squandering of America, Everything for Sale, and The End of Laissez-Faire, among other books.

Praise for Obama’s Challenge

“Obama’s Challenge is the fruit of Bob Kuttner’s lifetime of engagé reporting, analysis, and advocacy . . . it is riveting, brilliant, and persuasive. Kuttner, in concise chapters written with great vigor and clarity, shows what the change could look like if Obama is bold enough to go for it and the gods continue to smile on him.”
—Hendrik Hertzberg, from his New Yorker blog

“As Kuttner convincingly argues, a President Barack Obama will have an historic opportunity to radically transform America’s direction—but only if he rejects the tired centrist policies of the past and inspires his fellow citizens to forge new progressive paths. Kuttner systematically lays out the case for why Obama should give full voice to a robust progressive message at a time when the American people are suffering from years of conservative policy. Obama’s Challenge is an enlightening road map for all Americans who hunger for a change in direction and priorities in America, and who hope Obama can be our leading agent of change.”
—Markos Moulitsas Zúniga, founder of DailyKos.com, author of Taking on the System and coauthor of Crashing the Gate

“Bob Kuttner pulls off the all-but-impossible. He hits the high notes with artful precision, lifting expectations and articulating the steps that can make Barack Obama a great president—while setting forth a strong and highly readable call for comprehensive and essential economic change.”
—John Sweeney, AFL-CIO President

“Robert Kuttner has incisively captured the political moment, underscored by the deepening economic crisis. Lucidly and passionately, he lays out the hurdles facing an Obama presidency and challenges him to seize the moment and achieve greatness by redeeming the promise of America.”
—Arianna Huffington, cofounder and editor-in-chief of the Huffington Post

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Tom Daschle’s book – Obama Health Secretary pick

 

Obama’s pick for Health and Human Services Secretary makes sense.Tom Daschle, the former senate majority leader wrote a book called Critical – What We Can Do About the Health-Care Crisis Daschle believes the health-care problem is rooted in the complexity of the health-care issue and the power of the interest groups — doctors, hospitals, insurers, drug companies, researchers, patient advocates — that have a direct stake in it. Rather than simply pointing out the major flaws and placing blame, Daschle offers key solutions and creates a blueprint for solving the crisis. Daschle’s solution lies in the Federal Reserve Board, which has overseen the equally complicated financial system with great success. A Fed-like health board would offer a public framework within which a private health-care system can operate more effectively and efficiently — insulated from political pressure yet accountable to elected officials and the American people. Daschle argues that this independent board would create a single standard of care and exert tremendous influence on every other provider and payer, even those in the private sector. Be sure the check out Tom Daschle’s book.

The Tyranny of Oil by Antonia Juhasz

The Tyranny of Oil - by Antonia Juhasz

Buy The Tyranny of Oil  book at a discount Book Summary:   The hardest-hitting exposé of the oil industry in decades, and a bold blueprint for reining it in. Required reading for every concerned global citizen. • Why are oil and gasoline prices rising so quickly? • Where will prices go in the future? • Who’s really controlling those prices? • How much oil is left? • How far will Big Oil go to get it? • And at what cost to the economy, environment, human rights, worker safety, public health, democracy, and America’s place in the world?

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The Limits of Power by Andrew J. Bacevich

The Limits of Power by Andrew J. Bacevich

Buy The Limits of Power book at a discountBook Summary: From an acclaimed conservative historian and former military officer, a provocative call for Americans to confront our national crises—and renew our country’s promise. The Limits of Power identifies a profound triple crisis facing America: The economy, in remarkable disarray, can no longer be fixed by relying on expansion abroad; the government, transformed by an imperial presidency, is a democracy in form only; U.S. involvement in endless wars, driven by a deep infatuation with military power, has been a catastrophe for the body politic. These pressing problems threaten all of us, Republicans and Democrats. If the nation is to solve its predicament, it will need the revival of a distinctly American approach: the neglected tradition of realism.

Andrew J. Bacevich (The New American Militarism), a retired U.S. Army colonel uniquely respected across the political spectrum, offers a historical perspective on the illusions that have governed American policy since 1945. The realism he proposes includes respect for power and its limits; sensitivity to unintended consequences; aversion to claims of exceptionalism; skepticism of easy solutions, especially those involving force; and a conviction that the books will have to balance. Only a return to such principles, Bacevich argues, can provide common ground for fixing America’s urgent problems before the damage becomes irreparable. The Washington Post called The Limits of Power “a bracing slap of reality . . . chockablock with provocative ideas,” and said the book “ought to be on the reading list of every candidate for national office.” Publishers Weekly praised its “crisp prose, sweeping historical analysis, and searing observations.”

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