A Time to Lead
For Duty, Honor and Country
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3.0 • 1 Rating
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- $11.99
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Publisher Description
Four-star General Wesley K. Clark became a major figure on the political scene when he was drafted by popular demand to run for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States in 2003. But this was just one of many exceptional accomplishments of a long and extraordinary career.
Here, for the first time, General Clark uses his unique life experience—from his difficult youth in segregated Arkansas where he was raised by his poor, widowed mother; through the horror of Vietnam where he was wounded; the post-war rebuilding of national security and the struggles surrounding the new world order after the Cold War—as a springboard to reveal his vision for America, at home and in the world. General Clark will address issues such as foreign policy, the economy, the environment, education and health care, family, faith, and the American dream.
Rich with breathtaking battle scenes, poignant personal anecdote and eye-opening recommendations on the best way forward, General Clark's new book is a tour de force of gripping storytelling and inspiring vision.
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Cullen (Born in the USA) unmasks\t\t the major mistakes of 11 American presidents. Some of his choices are\t\t predictable, such as FDR's fumble in trying to subvert the judiciary. Other\t\t choices seem quirky. Lincoln's greatest error? Arrogantly criticizing Methodist\t\t minister Peter Cartwright when the future president was a young man. Clinton's\t\t real misstep was not his failure to keep his pants zipped, but his health care\t\t plan. Cullen overreaches when he suggests that this political disaster was\t\t linked to Clinton's sexual shenanigans: in Cullen's view, Clinton delegated\t\t health care reform to his wife "in part an act of personal atonement for\t\t marital infidelity." Cullen singles out the invasion of Iraq as the current\t\t president's grossest blunder, with his mishandling of Katrina a close second. A\t\t few of the portraits are redemptive. LBJ, who engaged in electoral fraud to get\t\t elected to the Senate in 1948, later signed the Voting Rights Act into law.\t\t Cullen's grand conclusion takes the tone of a tedious inspirational speech and\t\t trades in clich s ("Effective governance is a two-way street") as he\t\t pedantically explains that what really matters is not who the president is, but\t\t "who the people are" and what presidential behavior the American electorate\t\t will accept. This is a sadly thin contribution to presidential history. B&w\t\t illus.
