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Rebooting the American Dream
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Rebooting the American Dream

11 Ways to Rebuild Our Country

Thom Hartmann
Berrett-Koehler, 2010

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Editorial Rating

7

Qualities

  • Controversial
  • Innovative

Recommendation

Controversial and politically progressive radio host Thom Hartmann has nothing nice to say about Ronald Reagan. Hartmann believes Reagan sponsored a catastrophic conservative restructuring of US governmental norms. According to Hartmann, Reagan and his cronies handed the nation’s wealth to their friends via free-trade laws, nonenforcement of antitrust rules, union busting and runaway deficit spending that benefited the military-industrial complex. This sometimes-repetitive tome is sharply, refreshingly at odds with conventional wisdom, though if you admire Reagan you may want to read another book instead. getAbstract suggests these essays to legal thinkers, politicians, academics, health care advocates and progressive entrepreneurs.

Take-Aways

  • The United States built its economy on manufacturing and sound protectionist principles.
  • “Free trade Reaganomics destroyed the US economy by gutting the middle class.”
  • The US must reverse the tax cuts engineered by Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush.

About the Author

Radio talk show host Thom Hartman also wrote Screwed: The Undeclared War Against the Middle Class – and What We Can Do About It.

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