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In Now or Never, the curmudgeonly Cafferty applies his heat-seeking scrutiny to the hot-button issues that top the 2009 agenda, including the economy, China, Iraq, the war on terror, and our broken immigration, education, and healthcare systems. Will Obama turn things around or will it be business as usual? Will a hitherto spineless Democratic Congress hold individuals accountable for abuses of power? Cafferty gives voice to the fears and hopes of Americans from all around the country; he also gets personal with moving stories of his experiences raising kids with values that seem to be disappearing in our culture.
Powerful, provocative, and drawing on the latest news from America and around the world, Now or Never makes lively reading for Cafferty fans and everyone who cares about America today.
From the Inside Flap
In this take-no-prisoners survey of a nation in the grip of multiple crises, Cafferty turns his unflinching sights on what needs to go right in President Obama's first term. Putting his own signature stamp on Obama's campaign slogan, he tells the charismatic new leader that this is a time for "change we will believe in when we see it."
Cafferty applies his heat-seeking scrutiny to the hot-button issues that will top the 2009 agenda, including the continuing economic and energy crises, Iraq, Afghanistan, China, the global war on terror, and our broken immigration, education, and healthcare systems, as well as other issues of domestic and international instability. He cuts through the spin and the blame games to reveal the truth about how these disasters happened and what we should expect our new president to do about them. He also offers ways we can monitor whether the new administration is really turning things around or just settling into its own version of business as usual.
While Cafferty certainly pulls no punches when detailing the misdeeds of Bush, Paulson, and the usual Republican suspects, he is, as always, an equal-opportunity critic of the rich, powerful, and complacent in both parties. He goes after the Democratic Party (examining its fiercely contested primary campaign), Nancy Pelosi, the ACLU, and causes beloved by liberals that he believes may threaten America's future.
One of Cafferty's most valuable skills is his ability to connect big-picture politics with the realities of day-to-day life for most Americans. Through moving stories of his experiences struggling to raise his own kids with values that seem to be disappearing in our culture, he brings seemingly abstract issues down to earth and reveals why they should matter to every citizen.
Jack Cafferty's distinctive combination of skepticism, patriotism, and caustic wit has long given voice to the fears and hopes of people from all around the country. In Now or Never, he joins the majority of Americans in offering President Obama his full support along with profound wishes for the new administration's success. On the other hand, should Obama be tempted at any point to emulate his predecessor's arrogance and try to hoodwink the great American middle class, he should remember: Jack Cafferty is watching.
作者简介 JACK CAFFERTY is a CNN host and commentator who appears regularly on the network's popular news program The Situation Room, where his "Cafferty File" segments are seen by two million viewers every afternoon. His segments provoke thousands of e-mails each week, and his blog often receives more than three million hits per month. He is the author of the New York Times bestseller It's Getting Ugly Out There.
专业书评 From Publishers Weekly
In the irascible style of his on-air CNN soap box The Cafferty Files, veteran political reporter and talking head Cafferty (It's Getting Ugly Out There) delivers an uncompromising account of George W. Bush's presidency and the current state of affairs in the U.S., focusing on the invasion of Iraq and the insider deals between the Bush/Cheney administration and corporations like Exxon and Enron. Also scrutinized is Bush's lackadaisical attitude toward the growing threat of inner Afghanistan turmoil, the brittle relationship between the U.S. and China, and new class warfare in a cratering economy. Perhaps more importantly, Cafferty recaps the 2008 presidential election, addressing the strategies that lost McCain-Palin the presidency and the cascade of problems Obama has inherited. The stolid Cafferty even takes an occasional step back from politics to offer glimpses of his family and his own climb to success, a personal touch that should surprise Caffety's fans almost as much as his sincere belief in a coming turn for the better.
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From the Back Cover
Where does he start?
In his bestselling It's Getting Ugly Out There, Jack Cafferty skewered the liars and losers who were harming the nation and explained why we had to take our country back. While Barack Obama's campaign and history-making election bring a certain sense of "mission accomplished," for Cafferty that's only the beginning.
In Now or Never, the caustic Cafferty catalogs the fallout of eight years of Bush lunacy and reveals just how daunting a task our new president faces. With an economy in tatters, two ongoing wars, a rivalry with China, a brewing conflict with Iran, the war on terror, and our broken immigration, education, and healthcare systems, confronting these urgent crises should top the 2009 agenda. Does President Obama stand a chance of turning things around? Will the Democratic Congress hold individuals accountable for abuses of power? Cafferty digs deep into each of these issues and gives our new president some advice straight from the heart of a mainstream American.
Powerful, provocative, and sure to be controversial, Now or Never makes lively reading for Cafferty fans, for Obama friends and foes, and for everyone who cares about America today.
Praise for It's Getting Ugly Out There
"Cafferty's tough-talking cynicism . . . cuts through . . . a media climate thick with rigid ideology and tabloid excess."
—Publishers Weekly
"It's getting ugly out there and Cafferty doesn't make it any prettier. Instead [he] makes it easier to understand."
—Tribune Media Services
目录
1 Our Last Best Hope.
2 The Primaries: It Was Their Party and They Cried If They Wanted To.
3 As the Iraqis Stand Up, It’s Time for the United States to Clear Out.
4 China: The Global Superpower Goes for the Gold . . . Ours.
5 The Family’s a Corporation Where I Hold All the Voting Shares.
6 The Bush Legacy: Imperial Reign, Impeachable Ruin.
7 Time to Raise Our Grades in Education, Immigration, and Energy.
8 Are We Safer Yet? A World of Foreign Policy Troubles Left Behind.
9 Marriage and Fatherhood Work Best as Sobering Experiences.
10 Debt and Revival.
11 The $1 Billion Battle to Mortgage Our Future.
12 The New Prez’s Real Campaign Begins: To Fix Our Broken Nation.
Epilogue: One Change We Didn’t Need but Are Learning to Live With.
Acknowledgments.
Index.
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