This book did a good job of cutting through the nonsense talk which seems to be all we hear in the 'news' today. Their long term and unsympathetic look at American economic/policy history- situations, decisions and consequences, was a good antidote for the spin of the moment and gave a framework for discovering what works and what is going wrong now.
Unfortunately, I felt very little was given in terms of how to move forward. The last chapter throws out an idea, but I thought it asked for a bit of a deus ex machina rather than suggesting a rational course for an average American or even a businessman or elected representative. Maybe if everyone read the book and thought about it maybe a new dialogue could begin.