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How Obama's Team Fumbled the Recovery
Simon & Schuster
March 2012
On Sale: February 28, 2012
351 pages
ISBN: 1439172404
EAN: 9781439172407
Kindle: B005GG0KQM
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FACING THE WORST ECONOMY SINCE THE 1930S, PRESIDENT BARACK
OBAMA HIRED A CRACK TEAM OF ESCAPE ARTISTS: financial
wizards who had pulled off numerous white-knuckle getaways
during the Clinton era and who were ready to do it all over
again. Three years later, with the economy still in a rut,
it’s clear that they fell far short. This is the inside
story of what went wrong. The Escape Artists features previously undisclosed internal
documents and extensive, original reporting from the highest
levels of the administration. Star White House journalist
Noam Scheiber reveals the mistakes and missed opportunities
that kept the president’s pedigreed team from steering the
economy in the right direction. He shows what responsibility
the president bears for those missteps, what bold actions
his brain trust refused to take despite its preternatural
confidence, and how the White House was regularly
outmaneuvered by Republicans in Congress. Tracking the administration’s efforts deep into the fall of
2011, The Escape Artists provides a gripping look inside the
meeting rooms, in-boxes, and minds of the men who tried to
manage the defining crisis of the Obama presidency: how the
very qualities that made these men and women escape artists
in the 1990s ultimately failed them.
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