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Released: Jun 23, 2015. 464 pages.
In American Mojo: Lost and Found, Peter D. Kiernan, award-winning author of New York Times bestseller Becoming China’s Bitch, focuses on America’s greatest challenge—and opportunity—restoring the middle class to its full promise and potential.
Our educated, skilled and motivated middle class was the cornerstone of America’s postwar economic might, but the country’s dynamic core has struggled and changed dramatically through the last three decades. Kiernan’s extensively researched story, told through individual histories, shows how the middle class flourished under unique circumstances following World War II; and details how our middle class has been rocked and shaped by events abroad as much as at home. By excluding too many Americans, the middle class we reverently recall was fractured from the beginning. What emerges through his storytelling is a picture of middle class decline and opportunity that is fuller, more moving and profound, and ultimately more useful in terms of charting a path forward than other examinations. His unique global perspective is a vital ingredient in charting the way ahead. This new frontier thesis shows that middle class greatness is again within our grasp—if we take some powerful medicine and seize the global opportunity. America possesses the skills and talent the world needs. Americans must embrace what brought our middle class to prominence in the first place—our American Mojo—before it is too late and other countries steal the march.
All that is at stake is the soul of our nation.
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Most Helpful Customer Reviews 16 of 16 people found this review helpful: Enthralling, Clear and Constructive--A Realistic Blueprint June 17, 2015 by Peter Hillman "(budding enthusiast)" Amazon Verified Purchase This timely, fresh and engaging book is the one everybody running for President will wish s/he could have written.
It takes an author unencumbered by political ambition, but with a wealth of hands- on corporate, world and philanthropic experience, to give us this essential reading, now. It takes an unfettered private citizen, not enmeshed in academia or governmental/think tank agendas and revolving doors, to home in on what's
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10 of 10 people found this review helpful: LET'S NOT HAVE HISTORY REPEAT ITSELF July 1, 2015 by Robin Leigh Morgan "MG/YA Romance Author" I received a hardcover edition of this book through a http://GoodReads.com giveaway and the following is my honest opinion for it.
This book is a far cry from the myriad of genres of fiction books and memoirs I’ve reviewed to date. It’s not the type of book readers can read right through without taking any sort of break; they need to absorb each one chapter one at a time to reap the greatest benefits this book has to offer them.
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8 of 8 people found this review helpful: Solid Compass Direction July 12, 2015 by F. J. West "Bing West" This is an account of how to thread the needle between liberals who want to regulate a redistribution of a fixed economic pie and conservatives who believe less regulation will increase the size of the pie. Both claim their preferred path increases the income of the middle class, elastic by any definition. The author argues for less regulation and increased government incentives for mostly export-related expansionism that will incentivize our dynamic middle class to exert its inherent mojo...
