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America Back on Track | ||
| Author: | Edward Kennedy | ||
| ISBN: | 0670037648 | ||
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Senator Edward Kennedy reveals his inspired plan to revive the lapsed ideals of our nation With a Senate career that has spanned more than four decades, Edward M. Kennedy has become one of the strongest voices in American politics. In America Back on Track, he argues that America is at a crossroads, having reached a point where it has departed more deeply from its fundamental ideals than at any time in its modern history. In response to the erosion of the nation’s basic values, he presents a sweeping agenda for reform and renewal, speaking to the country’s most significant needs at home and abroad. National security, the war in Iraq, terrorism, and key domestic challenges such as jobs, health care, education, civil rights, energy, and the environment all receive major attention in his proposals to counter the harmful policies of the current administration, restore America’s respect in the world, and create a better America here at home where democracy, individual opportunity, equal justice, and innovation can flourish. With his first major policy book in more than twenty years, Senator Kennedy takes an in- depth look at our modern political landscape and offers innovative policies that he genuinely believes will guide the country effectively to the future. America Back on Track FROM OUR EDITORS As a veteran United States senator, Ted Kennedy has long held a ringside seat to the most important affairs of state. In America Back on Track, his first major policy book in two decades, he asserts that we stand at a critical crossroads in our nation's history. "In nearly four and a half decades as a U.S. Senator," he writes, "I have never before seen the nation depart as sharply from its fundamental ideals as it has in recent years." In 12 concise, sharply targeted chapters, Kennedy writes about this erosion of values and offers an agenda to correct our course. FROM THE PUBLISHER With America Back on Track, his first major policy book in more than forty years, Senator Edward Kennedy reveals a critical plan to revive the lapsed values of our nation. FROM THE CRITICS Publishers Weekly As the title implies, Senator Kennedy's book of political history, criticism and advice is an effort to reawaken the belief in progress that underlay politics in the 1960s, often lauding his brother's presidency and Johnson's just after. Kennedy presents some of his most important points in bulleted lists, giving the appearance of simplicity and clarity on complex topics like ways to adjust to globalization and "the shrinking world," steps to achieve "a sound energy conservation policy" and how to provide health care for all. Although Kennedy isn't often as clear as his bulleted points make it appear, his straightforward solutions-like equal federal, state and local government funding for education and an increase in the minimum wage to $7.25-are refreshing. Not unexpectedly, Kennedy's proposals also involve sharp criticism of the Bush administration: for focusing on the military war on terror rather than taking a broader view of global security; for the "politicization" of government agencies and departments like the FDA; for undermining civil liberties. His book will probably not start the next revolution, but Kennedy's talking points and proposed solutions offer a good basis for discussion, which, after all, is one aspect of democracy-which he fears is disappearing, or rather, being repressed. (Apr. 20) Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information. Library Journal How America has deserted its ideals-and what can be done about it. Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.
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