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Come Home, America
Perhaps no one is better equipped to analyze the current state of our democracy than legendary reporter William Greider. He has covered politics from the nation’s capital for four decades—for the Washington Post, Rolling Stone, and most recently The Nation—and has earned a reputation as one of our most incisive, uncompromising truth-tellers and social critics. In his ...more
Hardcover, 336 pages
Published
March 17th 2009
by Rodale Books
(first published February 17th 2009)
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Once again, Greider does a magnificent job turning his 40 years as a globe-trotting business journalist into a deeply insightful discussion of the challenges facing the United States as an economy and a democracy. (His 1997 book on globalization, "One World, Ready or Not" is a classic, and maybe the best book on globalization ever written.) I deeply appreciated his very accessible discussion of the role that Federal Reserve policies, America's military buildup, the U.S. trade deficit...more
William Greider was one of my favorite Rolling Stone political writers so I was pretty excited to get this from the library.
Unfortunately the book really isn't much different (on the right or left) than many of the books out there that seek to inspire American voters to mobilize and and renew their values. I think Greider has some great insight due to his experience as a long-time, old school reporter. But I caught myself several times only able to read 10-15 pages in a sitting beca...more
Unfortunately the book really isn't much different (on the right or left) than many of the books out there that seek to inspire American voters to mobilize and and renew their values. I think Greider has some great insight due to his experience as a long-time, old school reporter. But I caught myself several times only able to read 10-15 pages in a sitting beca...more
Greider's work on the Federal Reserve was very important in my research for my own book. Now he has a book that puts our last hope of being all we say we want to be in the United States into the people's hands! Can't agree more. Only we, the people, who "know" will be able to set this Nation back on course.
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I'm not quite as optimistic as Mr. Greider but I am like-minded. I especially like the "clubs for America" idea.
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Please read this! It's very NOW in more than just politics.
Excellent book, but after reading it I am left with the rather large question of "So what do we do now?"
Democrat,Republican,Independent,conservative or liberal,Come Home is a provocative,eye-opening must read.
Read Bill Greider's Secrets of the Temple for a class many years ago. Another outstanding effort.
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