by Bill Bradley
14. “Letter to Ryan,” accessed at http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/92xx/doc9216/05-19-LongtermBudget_Letter-to-Ryan.pdf.
15. “The Feeblest Branch,” The Economist, October 1, 2011.
16. Nightly Business Report, PBS, July 14, 2011.
17. See, for example, Professor J. Rufus Fears’s lectures for the Teaching Company, Famous Romans; The World was Never the Same: Events that Changed History; American Voices, interview with Bill Bradley, February 26, 2012.
Chapter 4
1. “U.S. Election Will Cost $5.3 Billion, Center for Responsive Politics Predicts,” OpenSecrets blog, Oct. 22, 2008, accessed at http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2008/10/us-election-will-cost-53-billi.html.
2. “Most Members of Congress Enjoy Robust Financial Status, Despite Nation’s Sluggish Economic Recovery,” OpenSecrets blog, Nov. 15, 2011, accessed at http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2011/11/congress-enjoys-robust-financial-status.html.
3. “Chart of the Day: 9% of Americans Are Millionaires in 2011,” The Atlantic online, May 5, 2011, accessed at http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2011/05/chart-of-the-day-9-of-americans-are-millionaires-in-2011/238458/#.
4. “Lobbying Database,” OpenSecrets blog, accessed at http://www.opensecrets.org/lobby.
5. Mancur Olson, The Rise and Decline of Nations (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1982).
6. “Lobbying Database,” OpenSecrets blog.
7. “Interest Groups,” OpenSecrets blog, accessed at http://www.opensecrets.org/industries/index.php.
8. Gretchen Morgenson, Reckless Endangerment: How Outsized Ambition, Greed, and Corruption Led to Economic Armageddon (New York: Times Books, 2011), p. 19.
9. “FPA Statesman Dinner,” Foreign Policy Association, Dec. 6, 2011, accessed at http://www.fpa.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/Statesman%20Dinner_Kaufman_2011.pdf, p. 5.
10. Dan Burrows, “Chuck Prince, Former Citigroup CEO, Says He’s Sorry,” dailyfinance.com, April 8, 2010.
11. From a lecture by Warren Buffett in spring 1991 at Notre Dame. See http://www.tilsonfunds.com/BuffettNotreDame.pdf.
12. From “Citi Chief on Buyouts: ‘We’re Still Dancing,’” New York Times Dealbook, July 10, 2007.
13. “The Martin Era,” Time, February 2, 1970.
14. Henry Kaufman, “Irresponsible Financial Behavior,” remarks delivered before the Carnegie Council, New York City, June 20, 2011.
Chapter 5
1. Yochai Benkler, The Penguin and the Leviathan: How Cooperation Triumphs over Self-Interest (New York: Crown, 2011), 246.
2. Bill Drayton, “Collaborative Entrepreneurship,” accessed at http://www.ashoka.org/sites/ashoka/files/Innovations_Collab_Ent_with_Empathy_Overview.pdf.
Chapter 6
1. Sabrina Tavernise, “Soaring Poverty Casts Spotlight on ‘Lost Decade,’” New York Times, Sept. 13, 2010.
2. Robert B. Reich, “The Limping Middle Class,” New York Times, Sept. 3, 2011.
3. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Poverty Guidelines, January 2011.
4. “Income, Poverty and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2010,” U.S. Census Bureau, Sept. 13, 2011, accessed at http://www.census.gov/newsroom/releases/archives/income_wealth/cb11-157.html.
5. Quoted in Edward Luce, “The Crisis of Middle Class America,” FT.Com/FT Magazine, July 30, 2010.
6. “Median and Average Sales Prices of New Homes Sold in United States,” U.S. Census Bureau, accessed at http://www.census.gov/const/uspricemon.pdf.
7. Les Christie, “30% of Mortgages Are Underwater,” CNNMoney.com, Feb. 9, 2011, accessed at http://money.cnn.com/2011/02/09/real_estate/underwater_mortgages_rising/index.htm; and Dan Levy, “U.S. Underwater Mortgages May Reach 30%, Zillow Says,” Bloomberg online, Aug. 11, 2009, accessed at http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=arpJHI9U42Rs.
8. Adrian Sainz, “Economy, Households, Banks Feel Drag from Pullback on Home-Equity Loans,” Seattle Times, Dec. 25, 2009, accessed at http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2010598093_homeequity26.html.
9. Mark Perry, “Manufacturing Jobs Drop to Lowest Level Since 1941, Below 9% of Workforce for the First Time,” DailyMarkets.com, Aug. 21, 2009, accessed at http://www.dailymarkets.com/economy/2009/08/20/manufacturing-jobs-drop-to-lowest-level-since-1941-below-9-of-workforce-for-the-first-time.
10. Richard McCormack, “The Plight of American Manufacturing,” American Prospect, December 21, 2009.-
11. E-mail on Dec. 7, 20011, from Hal Sirkin, coauthor of “Made in America, Again,” The Boston Consulting Group, August 2011.
12. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, “Current Employment Statistics, December 2011.”
13. Federal Reserve Board, “G.17 Statistics Release: Industrial Production and Capacity Utilization.”
14. See http://money.cnn.com/2010/05/06/news/international/china_america.fortuneindex.htm.
15. James K. Jackson, “Foreign Investment, CFIUS, and Homeland Security: An Overview,” Foreign Press Centers, Nov. 5, 2009, accessed at http://fpc.state.gov/documents/organization/133876.pdf, p. 4.
16. United Nations Conference on Trade & Development (UNCTAD), World Development Report, Annex Table 01.
17. Jon Gertner, “Does America Need Manufacturing,” New York Times, August 24, 2011.
18. Susan Hockfield, “Manufacturing a Recovery,” New York Times, August 29, 2011.
19. Ibid.
20. J. Bradford Jensen, Global Trade in Services: Fear, Facts and Offshoring (Washington, DC: Peterson Institute for International Economics, 2011).
21. Peter Mott, “Single-Payer Health System Could Save Billions,” Physicians for a National Health Program, Dec. 7, 2008, accessed at http://www.pnhp.org/news/2008/december/singlepayer_health_.php; and Bernie Sanders, “Health Care,” Feb. 11, 2012, accessed at http://sanders.senate.gov/legislation/issue/?id=a5823331-b1c8-46a1-864f-a5986cf82a9b.
22. Bill Drayton, “Hire People, Retire Things,” What Matters, July 19, 2011, accessed at http://whatmatters.mckinseydigital.com.
23. Ibid.
24. June Taylor, Phil Heinrich, et al., “Job Creation Tax Options, Summary,” Get America Working, Dec. 1, 2011, accessed at http://www.getamericaworking.org/node/21.
25. E-mails from Steve Kent and June Thomas, Get America Working!, Jan. 4, 2012.
Chapter 7
1. James MacGregor Burns, The Workshop of Democracy (New York: Knopf, 1985), 543.
2. “The Great Depression,” History.com, accessed at http://www.history.com/topics/great-depression.
3. Jean Edward Smith, FDR (New York: Random House, 2008), 289.
4. Ibid.
5. David R. Francis, “Supply-siders Take Some Lumps,” Christian Science Monitor, October 1, 2007.
6. George Lakoff, “Why Democracy Is Public: The American Dream Beats the Nightmare,” HuffingtonPost, July 28, 2011, accessed at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/george-lakoff/why-democracy-is-public-t_b_911205.html.
Chapter 8
1. John M. Barry, The Great Influenza (Penguin, 2004), 302.
2. George Kennan, American Diplomacy 1900—1950 (IL: University of Chicago Press, 1951), 69.
3. Joseph Nye, “Optimistic or Pessimistic About America,” Commentary Magazine, Oct. 30, 2011, accessed at http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2011/10/30/optimistic-or-pessimistic-about-america-joseph-nye
4. Brady E. Hamilton, Joyce A. Martin, and Stephanie J. Ventura, “Births: Preliminary Data for 2010,” Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, accessed at http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr60/nvsr60_02.pdf, page 4; and George Friedman, The Next Hundred Years (New York: Anchor Books, 2010), 53–54.
5. Rickety, “2010 Defense Spending by Country,” Rickety blog, June 4, 2011, accessed at http://www.rickety.us/2011/06/2010-defense-spending-by-country.
6. William Overholt, personal e-mail that reflects the central theme of his 2008 book, Asia, America and the Transformation of Geopolitics (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007).
7. Clay Dillow, “In 2020, Take a High-Speed Train from Beijing to London,” Popular Science, March 16, 2010, accessed at http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2010-03/china-plans-beijing-london-high-speed-rail-link.
8. Michael Heath and Jason Scott, “Australia Boom Means Men Without Degree Earn More Than Bernanke,” Bloomberg online, April 1, 2011, accessed at http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-04-01/australia-boom-means-men-without-degree-earn-more-than-bernanke.html.
9. “FIFO, FIFO; It’s Off to Work We Go,” Flights Australia blog, Sept. 22, 2011, accessed at http://www.flightsaustralia.com.au/blog/?p=11.
10. David Caploe, “China High-End Value added—the German Connection,” economywatch.com, September 14, 2010; and “VDMA Steps Up Fight Against Product Piracy,” accessed at http://www.vdma.org/wps/portal/Home/en/Branchen/P/KUG/Presse/kug_A_20100526_VDMA_fight_against_product_piracy_en?WCM_GLOBAL_CONTEXT=/vdma/Home/en/Branchen/P/KUG/Presse/kug_A_20100526_VDMA_fight_against_product_piracy_en.
11. Daniel Schäfer, “Chinese Push into Germany’s Heart and Soul,” Financial Times, October 11, 2010.
12. Kishore Mahbubani, “Smart Power, Chinese Style,” The American Interest, March/April 2008, accessed at http://www.the-american-interest.com/article-bd.cfm?piece=406.
13. Personal communication from William H. Overholt; about his multiple conversations with Chinese diplomats, academics, and generals, including General Pan of China Reform Forum, the Think Tank of the Central Party School of the Chinese Communist Party.
14. Joel Brenner, America the Vulnerable: Inside the New Threat Matrix of Digital Espionage, Crime and Warfare (New York: Penguin Press, 2011), p. 118.
15. William H. Overholt, “Awaiting Xi Jinping: The New China,” Washington Quarterly Review, March 2012; and Chas Freeman (Ambassador and USFS, Ret.), speech at China Maritime Institute, Naval War College, Newport, Rhode Island, May 10, 2011.
Chapter 9
1. Wallace Stegner, Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1954), 304.
2. The American Promise, March 15, 1965; and also Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon Johnson, 1965 (Government Printing Office, 1966), Vol. 1, entry 107, 281–287.
3. Paul Krugman, “The Conscience of a Liberal,” New York Times, July 28, 2009.
4. “2012 Competitive House Race Chart,” Cook Political Report, Jan. 26, 2012, and updated Feb. 9, 2012, accessed at http://cookpolitical.com/charts/house/competitive.php.
5. George Lakoff, Thinking Points: Communicating Our American Values and Vision (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2006), see generally Chapter 2, “Biconceptualism”; see also http://www.cognitivepolicyworks.com/resource-center/thinking-points.
6. “2004 Servey of Consumer Finances: Summary Results,” Federal Reserve, accessed at http://www.federalreserve.gov/econresdata/scf/scf_2004.htm. An easier-to-digest form of the data is found in Alice H. Munnell and Steven A. Sass, Working Longer: The Solution to the Retirement Income Challenge (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2009), 5.
7. Jim Meyers and Kathleen Walter, “Rove: There Won’t Be a Third-Party Candidate,” Newsmax, Nov. 29, 2011, accessed at http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/Rove-Third-Party-Candidate/2011/11/28/id/419316.
8. Most of the Americans Elect information can be found through the AE Briefing Book, which is available on the AE website, http://static.americanselect.org/sites/files/official-documents/AE%20Candidate%20Book%2011.pdf; see also http://static.americanselect.org/sites/files/official-documents/AE%20ONE%20SHEET.pdf; see also AE’s draft rules for potential candidates at http://static.americanselect.org/sites/files/official-documents/Draft%209-30-11%20Rules.pdf; see also general nominating information at http://www.americanselect.org/official-documents.
Suggested Reading on America
Adams, Henry. History of the United States of America During the Administrations of Thomas Jefferson.
———. History of the United States of America During the Second Administration of Thomas Jefferson, 1805–1809, Volume 2.
Allen, Frederick Lewis. Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920s.
Boorstin, Daniel J. The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America.
Branch, Taylor. Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954–1963.
Brown, Dee Alexander. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West.
Burns, James MacGregor. The Vineyard of Liberty: The American Experiment, Volume 1.
———. The Workshop of Democracy: The American Experiment, Volume 2.
———. Crossroads of Freedom: The American Experiment, Volume 3.
Caro, Robert A. The Path to Power (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Volume 1).
———. Means of Ascent (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Volume 2).
———. Master of the Senate (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Volume 3).
Chace, James. 1912: Wilson, Roosevelt, Taft and Debs—The Election that Changed the Country.
Chernow, Ron. The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance.
Coles, Robert. The Call of Stories: Teaching and the Moral Imagination.
Crunden, Robert Morse. Ministers of Reform: The Progressives’ Achievement in American Civilization, 1889–1920.
DeTocqueville, Alexis. Democracy in America, Volumes I and II.
Dreiser, Theodore. An American Tragedy.
Eisenhower, Dwight. Eisenhower’s Farewell Address to the Nation.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo. Self Reliance.
Engler, Robert. Brotherhood of Oil: Energy Policy and the Public Interest.
Fiedler, Leslie A. Love and Death in the American Novel.
Fischer, David Hackett. Albion’s Seed: Four British Folkways in America (America: A Cultural History).
Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby.
Galbraith, John Kenneth. The Great Crash 1929.
Goodwin, Doris Kearns. Team of Rivals.
Greenstein, Fred I. The Hidden-Hand Presidency: Eisenhower as Leader.
Heilbroner, Robert L. The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times and Ideas of the Great Economic Thinkers.
Hofstadter, Richard. The Age of Reform.
Jay, John, Alexander Hamilton, and James Madison. The Federalist Papers.
Jensen, Richard J., William H. Lyon, Philip Reed Rulon, eds. Great Speeches in American History.
Kean, Thomas H. and Lee Hamilton. The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States.
Kennan, George F. American Diplomacy.
Kindleberger, Charles P. Manias, Panics, and Crashes: A History of Financial Crises.
Korda, Michael. Ike: An American Hero.
Lewis, Michael. The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story.
Limerick, Patricia Nelson. The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West.
Link, Arthur Stanley. Woodrow Wilson: Revolution, War, and Peace.
———. Woodrow Wilson and the Progressive Era.
———. Wilson.
Malcolm X. The Autobiography of Malcolm X.
Maclean, Norman. A River Runs Through It.
McCullough, David G. John Adams.
———. Truman.
McMurtry, Larry. Lonesome Dove: A Novel.
McPhee, John. Coming into the Country.
———. The Curve of Binding Energy: A Journey into the Awesome and Alarming World of Theodore B. Taylor.
———. Uncommon Carriers.
McPherson, Harry. A Political Education: A Washington Memoir.
McPherson, James M. Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era (Oxford History of the United States).
Melville, Herman. Moby Dick.
Miller, Arthur. Death of a Salesman.
Miller, Merle. Plain Speaking: An Oral Biography of Harry S. Truman.
Mitford, Jessica. American Way of Death.
Morgan, Ted. FDR: A Biography.
Morrison, Toni. Beloved.
Nichols, John Treadwell. The Milagro Beanfield War.
Okimoto, Daniel I. American in Disguise.
Schlesinger, Arthur Meier. The Age of Jackson.
———. The Cycles of American History.
Sherwood, Robert E. Roosevelt and Hopkins: An Intimate History.
Smith, Jean Edward. FDR.
Sorensen, Theodore C. Kennedy: The Classic Biography.
Stegner, Wallace. Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West.
Steinbeck, John. The Grapes of Wrath.
Twain, Mark. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
Updike, John. Rabbit, Run.
———. Rabbit Is Rich.
———. Rabbit at Rest.
U.S. Senate Committee on Banking and Currency. The Pecora Report: The 1934 Report on the Practices of Stock Exchanges from the “Pecora Commission.”
Vidal, Gore. Lincoln: A Novel (American Chronicle Series).
Warren, Earl. Report of the President’s Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy.
Whitman, Walt. The Complete Poems (Penguin Classics).
Wills, Garry. Nixon Agonistes: The Crisis of the Self-Made Man.
Index
Adams, John, 7, 153
Adams, John Quincy, 106
Affirmative action, 97
Afghanistan, 77, 100, 113, 114, 115, 127, 133
African Americans, 76, 135, 138
Agricultural Adjustment Act, 95
Al Qaeda, 71, 132
Albania, 114
Allende, Salvador, 112
Alpert, Daniel, 19
America
and achievement and mobility, 7, 75–80, 85
and citizenship, 120–121
decline of, 155
foreign investment in, 81–83
humanity of its people, 64–71
and other nations, 5–6, 105–133, 157
and problems, 1–2
and strengths, 7
and taking control of future, 155–161
and talent and immigration from overseas, 117–121
America the Vulnerable: Inside the New Threat Matrix of Digital Espionage, Crime and Warfare (Brenner), 130
