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How America\'s Leaders Lost the Guts to Make Us Great
Wiley
June 2012
On Sale: June 5, 2012
256 pages
ISBN: 1118279050
EAN: 9781118279052
Kindle: B007OWRBEK
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Democrats who voted for the healthcare bill but pretended
they hadn't; Republicans who took local credit for stimulus
money while condemning the bill on TV; Eric Cantor, Mitt
Romney, and the Democratic former governor of Maryland,
Parris Glendening. What do they all have in common?
According to former Pennsylvania governor Ed Rendell,
they're all wusses—and after more than three decades in
politics, he knows a wuss when he sees one. In A
Nation of Wusses, Rendell revisits some of the toughest
fights of his career. He recalls most vividly those moments
when he saw someone stand his ground, even at the risk of
incurring the wrath of supporters and losing the next
election. Unfortunately, as he surveys the current political
scene, what he sees is a herd of elected officials, both
legislators and executives, who seem far more concerned with
their own job security than with serving the people who
elected them. Among current office holders and
candidates, he sees politicians pretending to stand on
principle while, in fact, pandering to their bases;
flip-flopping on issues, not because of new information, but
because of new polls; and criticizing rivals for actions
they would have praised if done by allies. While not at all
shy about singling out Republicans like Scott Walker, Eric
Cantor, and Mitch McConnell, Rendell has no trouble taking
on Democrats who refuse to stand up to the teachers' unions
or distance themselves from allies who run into trouble.
Other politicians might have left out of their memoirs
stories like what happened to their plaque in the park, the
story of Swifty the five-legged donkey, a dirty Al Gore
joke, the time they considered pretending to faint, and who
they're already supporting for president in 2016. Luckily
for readers, Ed Rendell is not that kind of politician.
Complete with a scathing list of the "Top Ten Reasons Why
Most American Politicians Are Wusses" and packed with
uproarious tales of politicians in action that will make you
wonder why these folks keep getting elected, you might have
to go back to Ulysses S. Grant to find a politician with a
book as lively and honest as A Nation of Wusses.
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