Obama's Challenge: America's Economic Crisis

Obama's Challenge: America's Economic Crisis and the Power of a Transformative Presidency (Kindle Edition)

Obama Economic Crisis

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Richard Parker on Obama's Challenge
Richard Parker is the author of John Kenneth Galbraith: His Life, His Politics, His Economics. He is an Oxford-trained economist and senior fellow of the Shorenstein Center at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, where he also teaches a course on religion and public policy. A cofounder of the magazine Mother Jones, he writes extensively on economics and public policy.
This is a vitally important book--one which should be read whether you support Barack Obama or not.

It's a concisely reasoned and elegantly written essay on how a truly courageous president could lead us forward. A slender volume, it very usefully sweeps us past the often-overwrought speculation about whether this will or won't be a "transformative" election--akin to Lincoln's, Roosevelt's, JFK's, and even Ronald Reagan's--and on to the real questions of what such an election might accomplish, how, and why.

Obama's Challenge assumes Obama will be elected, but its author is hardly a captive partisan. As a highly regarded journalist and deft policy analyst, Robert Kuttner has been covering presidential elections--as well the politics of governance in the four years between them--for more than three decades. Experience has convinced him that the size and complexity of the problems America and the world are facing today requires an extraordinarily gifted leader--and he is willing here to affirm that Barack Obama might well be that person

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Indonesia Issues, Incidents and Images

Indonesia in the Soeharto Years: Issues, Incidents and Images (Hardcover)

Indonesia Issues, Incidents and Images

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During much of Soeharto's thirty-two years of reign as president (1967-1998) Indonesia was seen as a successful test-case in third world development, a wayward pariah turned into a shining example of modern economic planning and democracy. His New Order government won awards from the United Nations for the country's advances in family planning. The nation's massive development plans won the applause of the World Bank and international financiers. In fact, behind the New Order's benign facade was an intricate web of nepotism, corruption, and a persistent and wide-ranging repression of civil liberties, the full scope of which is now just beginning to become apparent.
Indonesia in the Soeharto Years delves into many of the issues and incidents that shaped the nation, from the grim years of 1964 and 1966, up until the nation's first direct election for the president in 2004. Photographs by many of the nation's top photojournalists and essays by economists, government leaders, journalists, activists, and scholars provide unique insights into the politics, culture, and history of Indonesia under the New Order.

Indonesia in the Soeharto Years also tracks the years after Soeharto's epic resignation in 1998, "the historic, very rapid, and so far very successful moves by the Indonesian people to implement an honest, transparent and safe democracy" as former U.S. President Jimmy Carter notes in the book's Foreword.

With more than 50 short essays, 80 photographic series and extended captions, and 500 historical photographs, this book is an essential document for anyone interested in the politics and culture of modern Indonesia. It is also a publishing milestone: with the work of 125 photographers under one cover, it offers the first comprehensive pictorial look at contemporary Indonesian history.

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