“Politics is stuck,”
writes Bill Bradley, in this insightful, informative, and
provocative
book about America at a crossroads, but “idealism isn’t
dead. It can be
reawakened.”
What
will it take to make America a better, stronger, truer
country? asks
the bestselling author, former Knicks star, and onetime
presidential
candidate. Bill Bradley believes that America is at a
teachable moment
when we are compelled to reevaluate our political system, our
leadership, our agenda as a nation, and ourselves as
citizens. With
clarity and urgency, Bradley shows why the story we are
being told now
about who we are as a people is not true. He then offers a
new story
about our nation, based on America’s rich heritage and his
belief in
the character of the American people. Bradley explores what
changes
need to be made in our parties, in our politics, and in citizen
activism to ensure America’s future. He asserts that the
American
people are ready for the truth and suggests that the party
that chooses
to embrace this new story will be in power for a generation.
Writing
from his own experience in politics and drawing on his
knowledge of
history, Bradley shows how the Republican Party has built a
solid
pyramid structure since the 1970s, at the base of which are
money,
ideas, and media, whereas the Democratic Party’s structure is an
inverted pyramid, with too much emphasis put on the need for a
charismatic leader to hold the pyramid up. Each party, for
different
reasons, fails to deal with the real issues that now
confront America.
This
informed and inspiring call to action is addressed not only
to the
parties and elected leaders, but to citizens as well.
Bradley proposes
things every American can do to shape our nation’s future.
He points
out that if eighty percent of the electorate voted, instead
of fifty
percent, it would be the most important change in American
politics
since women got the vote. Now more than ever, he says, we
need to
embrace an “ethic of connectedness,” a combination ofcollective action and individual responsibility, to
solve our nation’s most pressingproblems,
and he argues that the fate of all countries is bound
together as never
before. Writing today with the freedom of a private citizen,
Bradley
provides this transformative and eye-opening book about the
danger and
the promise of America’s choice at this crucial moment in
the nation’s
history.
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