Obama's greatest strength is his ability to bring the country together. For too long divisions among races, religions, political views, cultures, genders, and sexual preferences have prevented Americans from coming together to solve the most important problems of our generation. Global warming, lobbying reform, poverty, health care, wars, terrorism, education, housing and banking reform, and energy and water shortages-these are complex global problems that Talbott argues cannot be left to the free market business world or individual governments to solve.
Once major emphasis is placed on actual and effective citizen involvement, real solutions become apparent to our most pressing national socioeconomic problems. A completely laissez-faire world of unregulated financial markets and uncontrolled globalization can be returned to a properly regulated free market that responds to the voice of a democratic people. The American values of goodness, justice, and fairness to all Americans reflected in this young man, born of parents from Africa and Kansas, can once again be incorporated into our economic and financial system.
About the Author: A former investment banker for Goldman Sachs, John R. Talbott is the author of four books on economics and politics, including The Coming Crash in the Housing Market, He has appeared periodically as a contributor on CNN, Fox News, CNBC, and CBS Marketwatch, and has written for The Wall Street Journal, and The Financial Times.
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Once major emphasis is placed on actual and effective citizen involvement, real solutions become apparent to our most pressing national socioeconomic problems. A completely laissez-faire world of unregulated financial markets and uncontrolled globalization can be returned to a properly regulated free market that responds to the voice of a democratic people. The American values of goodness, justice, and fairness to all Americans reflected in this young man, born of parents from Africa and Kansas, can once again be incorporated into our economic and financial system.
About the Author: A former investment banker for Goldman Sachs, John R. Talbott is the author of four books on economics and politics, including The Coming Crash in the Housing Market, He has appeared periodically as a contributor on CNN, Fox News, CNBC, and CBS Marketwatch, and has written for The Wall Street Journal, and The Financial Times.
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Obamanomics
How Bottom-Up Economic Prosperity
Will Replace Trickle-Down Economics
By John R. Talbott
Seven Stories Press (256 Pages)
ISBN: 1583228659 and 9781583228654
Best-selling author John R. Talbott, widely regarded as one of the first to predict the current housing and mortgage crisis, turns his attention to the economic possibilities that are realistically achievable under a Barack Obama presidency.
How Bottom-Up Economic Prosperity
Will Replace Trickle-Down Economics
By John R. Talbott
Seven Stories Press (256 Pages)
ISBN: 1583228659 and 9781583228654
Best-selling author John R. Talbott, widely regarded as one of the first to predict the current housing and mortgage crisis, turns his attention to the economic possibilities that are realistically achievable under a Barack Obama presidency.
The Green Collar Economy
How One Solution Can Fix
Our Two Biggest Problems
By Van Jones
HarperCollins Publishers (256 Pages)
ISBN: 13: 9780061650758
Featured in Time magazine (>>), environmental leader, activist and visionary, Van Jones is also an advisor to policy makers and presidential candidates. Jones is the man Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Thomas Friedman says "is not to be underestimated." Van Jones delivers a much-needed economic and environmental solution, cutting through the noise of today's green movements.
How One Solution Can Fix
Our Two Biggest Problems
By Van Jones
HarperCollins Publishers (256 Pages)
ISBN: 13: 9780061650758
Featured in Time magazine (>>), environmental leader, activist and visionary, Van Jones is also an advisor to policy makers and presidential candidates. Jones is the man Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Thomas Friedman says "is not to be underestimated." Van Jones delivers a much-needed economic and environmental solution, cutting through the noise of today's green movements.
"When many people hear the term 'green' today, they still automatically think the message is probably for a fancy, eco-elite set-and not for themselves. And as long as that remains true, the green movement will remain too anemic politically and too alien culturally to rescue the country," says Van Jones
Provocative, personal, and inspirational, The Green Collar Economy is not a dire warning but rather a substantive and viable plan for solving the biggest issues facing the country. The failing economy and our devastated environment are the two looming crises facing the United States today. From a distance, it appears that these two problems are separate, but when we look closer, the connection becomes unmistakable.
In The Green Collar Economy, acclaimed activist and political advisor Van Jones delivers a real solution that both rescues our economy and saves the environment.
The economy is built on and powered almost exclusively by oil, natural gas, and coal-all fast-diminishing un-renewable resources. As supplies disappear, the price of energy climbs and nearly everything becomes more expensive. With costs and unemployment soaring, the economy stalls. Not only that, when we burn these fuels, the greenhouse gases they create overheat the atmosphere. As the headlines make clear, total climate chaos looms over us. The bottom line, we cannot continue with business as usual. We cannot drill and burn our way out of these dual dilemmas.
Instead, Van Jones illustrates how we can invent and invest our way out of the pollution-based gray economy and into the healthy new green economy. Built by a broad coalition deeply rooted in the lives and struggles of ordinary people, this path has the practical benefit of both cutting energy prices and generating enough work to pull the U.S. economy out of its present death spiral.
Rachel Carson's 1963 landmark book Silent Spring was the pivotal ecological examination of the last century. Now rising above the impenetrable debate over the environment and the economy, Van Jones's The Green Collar Economy delivers a timely and essential call to action for this new century. ALSO SEE: Sustainable South Bronx and Majora Carter (BusinessWeek)
About the Author: Van Jones is the founder and president of Green for All (GreenForAll.org). An internationally acclaimed and award-winning activist, and Special Advisor for Green Jobs to President Obama, Jones is a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress. In addition, Jones is also a board member of 1Sky, the Apollo Alliance, and a Fellow with the Institute of Noetic Sciences. A Yale Law graduate, Van Jones lives in Oakland with his wife and two sons.
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Provocative, personal, and inspirational, The Green Collar Economy is not a dire warning but rather a substantive and viable plan for solving the biggest issues facing the country. The failing economy and our devastated environment are the two looming crises facing the United States today. From a distance, it appears that these two problems are separate, but when we look closer, the connection becomes unmistakable.
In The Green Collar Economy, acclaimed activist and political advisor Van Jones delivers a real solution that both rescues our economy and saves the environment.
The economy is built on and powered almost exclusively by oil, natural gas, and coal-all fast-diminishing un-renewable resources. As supplies disappear, the price of energy climbs and nearly everything becomes more expensive. With costs and unemployment soaring, the economy stalls. Not only that, when we burn these fuels, the greenhouse gases they create overheat the atmosphere. As the headlines make clear, total climate chaos looms over us. The bottom line, we cannot continue with business as usual. We cannot drill and burn our way out of these dual dilemmas.
Instead, Van Jones illustrates how we can invent and invest our way out of the pollution-based gray economy and into the healthy new green economy. Built by a broad coalition deeply rooted in the lives and struggles of ordinary people, this path has the practical benefit of both cutting energy prices and generating enough work to pull the U.S. economy out of its present death spiral.
Rachel Carson's 1963 landmark book Silent Spring was the pivotal ecological examination of the last century. Now rising above the impenetrable debate over the environment and the economy, Van Jones's The Green Collar Economy delivers a timely and essential call to action for this new century. ALSO SEE: Sustainable South Bronx and Majora Carter (BusinessWeek)
About the Author: Van Jones is the founder and president of Green for All (GreenForAll.org). An internationally acclaimed and award-winning activist, and Special Advisor for Green Jobs to President Obama, Jones is a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress. In addition, Jones is also a board member of 1Sky, the Apollo Alliance, and a Fellow with the Institute of Noetic Sciences. A Yale Law graduate, Van Jones lives in Oakland with his wife and two sons.
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Lincoln On Race & Slavery
See The PBS Series: Looking for Lincoln
Edited By Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Co-edited By Donald Yacovone
Princeton University Press (416 Pages)
ISBN: 13: 978-0691142340
An essential volume for anyone who knows Lincoln or, more crucially, thinks he knows Lincoln, this eye-opening collection--so carefully selected, judiciously edited, and wisely assembled--fully evokes the complexities of the mid-nineteenth century and its most famous American personality. Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s piercing introduction is a dazzling piece of original, provocative, and in the end deeply felt scholarship. (Harold Holzer, co-chairman of the U.S. Lincoln Bicentennial Commission & HaroldHolzer.com)
See The PBS Series: Looking for Lincoln
Edited By Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Co-edited By Donald Yacovone
Princeton University Press (416 Pages)
ISBN: 13: 978-0691142340
An essential volume for anyone who knows Lincoln or, more crucially, thinks he knows Lincoln, this eye-opening collection--so carefully selected, judiciously edited, and wisely assembled--fully evokes the complexities of the mid-nineteenth century and its most famous American personality. Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s piercing introduction is a dazzling piece of original, provocative, and in the end deeply felt scholarship. (Harold Holzer, co-chairman of the U.S. Lincoln Bicentennial Commission & HaroldHolzer.com)
Generations of Americans have debated the meaning of Abraham Lincoln's views on race and slavery. He issued the Emancipation Proclamation, authorized the use of Black troops during the Civil War, supported a constitutional amendment to outlaw slavery, and eventually advocated giving the vote to Black veterans and to what he referred to as "very intelligent Negroes." But he also harbored grave doubts about the intellectual capacity of African Americans, publicly used the n-word until at least 1862, enjoyed "darky" jokes and black-faced minstrel shows, and long favored permanent racial segregation and the voluntary "colonization" of freed slaves in Africa, the Caribbean, or South America.
In this book — the first complete collection of Lincoln's important writings on both race and slavery — readers can explore these contradictions through Lincoln's own words. Acclaimed Harvard scholar and documentary filmmaker Henry Louis Gates, Jr., presents the full range of Lincoln's views, gathered from his private letters, speeches, official documents, and even race jokes, arranged chronologically from the late 1830s to the 1860s.
Complete with definitive texts, rich historical notes, and Gates's original introduction, this book charts the progress of a war within Lincoln himself. We witness his struggles with conflicting aims and ideas — a hatred of slavery and a belief in the political equality of all men, but also anti-black prejudices and a determination to preserve the Union even at the cost of preserving slavery. We also watch the evolution of his racial views, especially in reaction to the heroic fighting of black Union troops.
At turns inspiring and disturbing, Lincoln on Race and Slavery is indispensable for under- standing what Lincoln's views meant for his generation — and what they mean for our own.
About the Author: Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard University. His PBS documentary Looking for Lincoln marked the February 2009 bicentennial of Lincoln's birth. Donald Yacovone has written and edited a number of books, including Freedom's Journey: African American Voices of the Civil War.
C-SPAN Video Interview: Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. On The Lincoln Era & Obama Era >>
PBS Series: Looking for Lincoln - Hosted By Henry Louis Gates, Jr. with Doris Kearns Goodwin >>
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In this book — the first complete collection of Lincoln's important writings on both race and slavery — readers can explore these contradictions through Lincoln's own words. Acclaimed Harvard scholar and documentary filmmaker Henry Louis Gates, Jr., presents the full range of Lincoln's views, gathered from his private letters, speeches, official documents, and even race jokes, arranged chronologically from the late 1830s to the 1860s.
Complete with definitive texts, rich historical notes, and Gates's original introduction, this book charts the progress of a war within Lincoln himself. We witness his struggles with conflicting aims and ideas — a hatred of slavery and a belief in the political equality of all men, but also anti-black prejudices and a determination to preserve the Union even at the cost of preserving slavery. We also watch the evolution of his racial views, especially in reaction to the heroic fighting of black Union troops.
At turns inspiring and disturbing, Lincoln on Race and Slavery is indispensable for under- standing what Lincoln's views meant for his generation — and what they mean for our own.
About the Author: Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard University. His PBS documentary Looking for Lincoln marked the February 2009 bicentennial of Lincoln's birth. Donald Yacovone has written and edited a number of books, including Freedom's Journey: African American Voices of the Civil War.
C-SPAN Video Interview: Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. On The Lincoln Era & Obama Era >>
PBS Series: Looking for Lincoln - Hosted By Henry Louis Gates, Jr. with Doris Kearns Goodwin >>
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