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Title: I'll Be Short: Essentials for a Decent Working Society by Robert B. Reich ISBN: 0807043419 Publisher: Beacon Press Pub. Date: May, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.33
Rating: 1
Summary: Robert Reich--Marxist with a happy face
Comment: Robert Reich is a tax-and-spend leftist who thinks that guaranteed jobs and a wacky communal wealth scheme should be some sort of unalienable right. What it is is redistribution of wealth by a benevolent and all-knowing Government elite, like Reich himself, say, and is nothing more than warmed over Marxism. He's also running for Governor of Massachusetts, and if successful will help the Democratic legislature continue to tax the residents back into misery of the Mike Dukakis years, driving businesses and jobs away with his Nanny State philosophy, while doling out tax dollars to favored and connected groups.
Like I said, warmed over Marxism from a Clintonite who already has his pile of money.
Rating: 5
Summary: Robert Reich is Brief, and Important.
Comment: If you've read Robert Reich's recent books and articles, particularly in The American Prospect, you will recognize recurring themes; the insecurity imposed by a globalized economy, the growing income gap, and the importance of investing in education.
One of Reich's ideas that caught my attention was his proposal to extend traditional public schooling from grades K through 12 to K through 14. The 'accountability in education' movement often focuses on preparing students for four-year college degrees, despite the fact that most Americans do not attend or graduate from four-year college programs. In a discussion of the push by many universities to lavish resources on "star" students, Reich suggests that state funding should be shifted to community colleges and vocational programs.
Reich ends his book by addressing the reader with a challenge to personally provide political leadership and involvement despite the political denial, escapism, and resignation that is much too common today in our society.
This is a timely and brief book. You can read it in a day or two. Rather than put it on your bookshelf, give it to a friend and ask your friend to pass it on. (Even better buy a couple of copies and pass them along.) I plan to give a copy to a progressive candidate for the California legislature. Maybe some of Reich's ideas will "bubble-up" to the California legislature in the not-too-distant future.
Rating: 5
Summary: Great book: Robert Reich Rocks!!
Comment: Robert Reich writes in a clear prose that is easily understood and allows the reader to be fully informed without being lectured or preached at.
His points about the evolution of our work force are food for thought and one hopes that the current leadership in Washington is listening to Reich but I doubt it. Mr. Reich is actually a thinker and not a rabid partisan politician which makes him a refreshing breath of fresh air at a time when tv is full of bombast with everyone talking and no one listening. Chris Matthews did you hear me?
Read any book by Robert Reich and you'll learn something. It's like visiting with a favorite teacher or professor that you admire and respect. The hours fly by and you're just in awe of the person and what they have to say. Robert Reich is a true gentleman and a wise man as well.
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Title: The Future of Success: Working and Living in the New Economy by Robert B. Reich ISBN: 0375725121 Publisher: Vintage Books Pub. Date: 08 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Wealth and Democracy: A Political History of the American Rich by Kevin Phillips ISBN: 0767905334 Publisher: Broadway Books Pub. Date: 14 May, 2002 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Locked in the Cabinet by Robert B. Reich ISBN: 0375700617 Publisher: Vintage Books Pub. Date: February, 1998 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: The Resurgent Liberal: And Other Unfashionable Prophecies by Robert B. Reich ISBN: 0679731520 Publisher: Vintage Books Pub. Date: February, 1991 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: The Work of Nations: Preparing Ourselves for 21st Century Capitalism by Robert B. Reich ISBN: 0679736158 Publisher: Vintage Books Pub. Date: February, 1992 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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