- Hardcover: 208 pages
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster (Sep 2004)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0743270134
- ISBN-13: 978-0743270137
- Product Dimensions: 18 x 13 x 2.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 4,825,550 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
If you're fed up with the status quo, and want to join an intelligent refomer who uses scalpel to expose the
rotten flesh of the existing system, this book will confirm your every worst fear about politics.
rotten flesh of the existing system, this book will confirm your every worst fear about politics.
In 1968, I watched presidential candidates descend on our little community and was totally baffled at the insipid,
trivial and biased coverage of the so-called national press. It's now much worse, and Dean has the guts to
"expose the rotten flesh" of the media. His criticism of the Democrats pulls no punches, and is devastating on
the Greedy Old Party.
Dean knows anout miracle cures, which is what voters expect every four years; BUT, like every good doctor, he
knows it is far more important to change one's lifestyle than to pop yet another pill or spend another session
under the scalpel. He doesn't do "feel good" politics, he prescribes changes in lifestyle.
Think of applying the doctor's motto to politics, "First, do no harm."
If you understand that, you'll understand his approach. If you go to a doctor to have your appendix removed,
you'll end up with no appendix and a fading little scar on your tummy. Politicians, as anyone who watched the
debates or saw any political ads knows, recommend a shotgun to remove your appendix -- and the entire
substance of their debate centers on the use of a 410-gauge or a 12-gauge gun with SSGs or birdshot.
Most politicians want to go back to the past; Barry Goldwater liked 1910, George Wallace liked 1930, Richard
Nixon liked 1950 and, both John Kerry and George Bush act as if they'd love to go back to the Clinton prosperity
of 2000. Dean is one who realizes that all of us are going to live in the future, and it's up to each of us as to
how we live.
Despite the nattering nabobs of negativism, to use the words of the man who helped invent much of today's
negative politics, Dean has unbounded optimism in America. He's not here to pronounce a death sentence, which
many politicians offer if they are not elected; he's here to show all Americans how to live a better life.
If you're tired of the way lawyers have run the country, there's a lot to be said for doctors. This doctor says a
lot in a brief space. He knows, "Politicians can't solve our problems for us." Dean says America's faults are based
on the attitude "we're always looking for someone to come along and save us."
The good doctor knows we have to save ourselves. This book is a prescription to get started. It's well worth
reading. From there on, if you love this country, it's up to you and people like you. Dean is confident it can be
done.
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39 of 43 people found the following review helpful
A handbook for Democrats
15 Sep 2004
Format:Hardcover
Written by the Gov. Howard Dean, MD who surgically implanted a new spine into the Democratic Party this book lays out what has gone wrong with our party (and our country) and plots a course for the future. For those who didn't pay attention to the Democratic primary race - who may only know Howard Dean as that `scream guy' - read this book. There are at least 700,000 people out there who are better citizens, better Americans because of this man. All Democrats, Liberals, Progressives should read this book. Republicans who think all Democrats are wild-eyed America-hating socialists may learn a thing or to also. I purchased my signed copy at a Dean speech in Ohio.
16 of 18 people found the following review helpful
The Truth Of Our Times
2 Oct 2004
Format:Hardcover
Howard Dean really speaks his mind in this book. Despite the media's portrayal of him as a red-faced, raving, leftist fanatic, he is actually quite a moderate Democrat. This book is a how-to guide to succeed in the political world, and is a wake-up call for both sides on what they should be doing to bring our country back together again. Also, unlike Bill Clinton's My Life, the book is small enough that you can read it on a long airline flight. I urge everyone, Democrat or Republican, to at least give this book a try.
15 of 17 people found the following review helpful
Better as a memoir than a manual
29 Oct 2004
Format:Hardcover
Inevitably a book like this has two interwoven parts - a memoir and a litany of "we musts and we needs." As is often the case, the memoir of this rather unfortunately named book (sounds like a self help manual) is the far more interesting part. Dean is at his most interesting when discussing his take on his own campaign and various political figures. The famous scream? Dean makes a compelling case that it never happened (really!) Bill Clinton? A uniquely skilled politician who tried to undermine Dean and left many would-be successors with the wrong impression that he won because he was centrist. George Bush? The worst president since Harding (and even more dangerous). In acknowledging that his operation was not prepared to win a front-runners campaign, Dean sort of explains why he, as one of the guys who lost, should be writing about what Democrats need to do to win. I would have liked more analysis of what went wrong, and what went right. On the whole, though this slim volume is worthwhile and engaging enough to read in one or two sittings.
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