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Reclaiming a Fair and Just America
Broadway
May 2008
On Sale: May 19, 2008
272 pages
ISBN: 0767928350
EAN: 9780767928359
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
“I’m the only person in the history of Virginia elected to
statewide office with a Union card, two Purple Hearts, and
three tattoos." Jim Webb—the bestselling author and now the celebrated,
outspoken U.S. Senator from Virginia—presents a clear-eyed,
hard-hitting plan of attack for putting government to work
for the people, rather than special interests, and for
restoring the country's standing around the world. Infused with the intelligence, force, and firebrand style
that has earned Senator Jim Webb enormous national attention
from his earlest days in office, A Time to Fight offers a
thorough and provocative assessment of the thorniest issues
Americans face today, along with cogent solutions drawn from
Webb's lifetime of experience as a much-decorated Marine, a
widely traveled, award-winning journalist and novelist, a
highly placed member of the Reagan administration, a Senator
with a son who fought as a Marine in Iraq and, perhaps most
important, a proud scion of America's vast but frequently
ignored working class. Webb exposes how America has entered a dangerous,
unprecedented cycle of seemingly unsolvable unknowns. Our
economic policies, particularly in this age of
globalization, have produced widely divergent results
leading to a country calcifying along class lines. Our
demographic makeup has been altered dramatically and is set
to keep on changing, through both legal and illegal
immigration. Our editorialists and politicians talk about
the American dream, and some urge us to bring democracy to
the rest of the world. But more than two million Americans
are now in prison, by far the highest incarceration rate in
the so-called advanced world. Our foreign policy is
confused, without clear direction; increasingly vulnerable
to such largely unexamined long-term threats as China's
emerging power while it has become bogged down in the
never-ending struggles of the Middle East. As this drift
toward societal regression has taken place, America's
leadership has largely been paralyzed, unable or unwilling
to stop the slide. "Where are the leaders?" Webb asks. "Has
our political process become so compromised by powerful
interest groups and the threat of character assassination
that even the best among us will not dare to speak honestly
about the solutions that might bring us back to common sense
and fundamental fairness?" Through vivid personal narratives of the struggles members
of his family faced, and citing the courageous actions of
presidents ranging from Andrew Jackson to Teddy Roosevelt to
Dwight Eisenhower, A Time to Fight provides specific, viable
ideas for restoring fairness to our economic system,
correcting the direction of national security efforts,
ending America's military occupation of Iraq, and developing
greater government accountability. Webb brings a fresh
perspective to political dynamics that have shaped our
country. His stirring, populist manifesto calls upon voters
to make the choices that will change America for the better
in this election season.
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