The Slick-Rock Irregular Book Report Posting No. 9-121
The Slick-Rock (Irregular) Book Review
America in the Age of Descent
By
Edward Luce
Book Type: Non-Fiction,
Current Events, Political Commentary
In this
work, Edward Luce offers a highly engaging and incisive account of America’s
economic and geopolitical decline. He interviews people from US senators to health
care workers and business leaders such as Bill Gates. These interviews are candid and revealing. One interview perhaps says it best. When he interviewed the Chairman of the
Joint Chiefs of Staff. Admiral Michael Muller he was told; We are borrowing money from China to build weapons to face down China.” Muller is just one of several people who
believe that unless America evolves quickly we will face serious consequences.
As
the Washington Bureau Chief for the Financial Times (London) for the
past four years Luce has traveled the nation interviewing
public figures such as US Senators and business leaders. His research covers such areas as education,
health case and politics. He talks to
national leader’s right down to the man in the street. He treats foreign completion and tells how
IBM and General Electric now employ more people outside the country than within
it.
Politically,
the difference between Republicans and Democrats is likened to the differences
between Coke and Pepsi. 90% of people
can’t really tell the difference.
America needs friends who tell us what we need to hear and who will
suggest solutions no matter how much we don’t want to hear those concepts and
ideas. Luce fills the bill with his
book.
Often
foreigners are the keenest observers of American life. Edward Luce is one such man. He paints a well researched picture of life
in twenty-first century America. It is
a disturbing picture. He details how
the American political and wealthy elite have failed to come to grips with the
real problems facing America. Perhaps
the single most decisive issue for the 2012 presidential election is that
candidates simply do not understand the average American. This work provides an insightful narrative
on the state and origins of our current malaise. This is a book that will transform the way you think about the
country.
This book
that may be the smartest book yet or how and why America is broken. Luce offers a critical, nonpartisan analysis
of the issues facing America today. He
sets forth conclusions and a plan for what must be done. Some of his conclusions are disturbing.
Luce is the
anther or the international best seller In Spite of the Gods and lives in Washington DC.
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This book is available in print, in a Kindle Format. .
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