Now or Never: Getting Down to the Business of Saving Our American Dream

by Jack Cafferty

Overview

In his bestselling It's Getting Ugly Out There, CNN’s Jack Cafferty skewered the liars and losers who were trying to harm the nation and explained why Americans had to take their country back. While the Bush exit from the White House brings a certain sense of "mission accomplished," for Cafferty that's only the beginning.

In Now or Never, the curmudgeonly Cafferty applies his heat-seeking scrutiny to the hot-button issues that top the 2009 agenda, including the economy, China, Iraq, the war on terror, and our broken immigration, education, and healthcare systems. Will Obama turn things around or will it be business as usual? Will a hitherto spineless Democratic Congress hold individuals accountable for abuses of power? Cafferty gives voice to the fears and hopes of Americans from all around the country; he also gets personal with moving stories of his experiences raising kids with values that seem to be disappearing in our culture.

Powerful, provocative, and drawing on the latest news from America and around the world, Now or Never makes lively reading for Cafferty fans and everyone who cares about America today.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780470532003
Publisher:	Trade Paper Press
Publication date:	04/08/2009
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	272
File size:	387 KB

About the Author

JACK CAFFERTY is a CNN host and commentator who appears regularly on the network's popular news program The Situation Room, where his "Cafferty File" segments are seen by two million viewers every afternoon. His segments provoke thousands of e-mails each week, and his blog often receives more than three million hits per month. He is the author of the New York Times bestseller It's Getting Ugly Out There.

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Table of Contents

1 Our Last Best Hope.

2 The Primaries: It Was Their Party and They Cried If They Wanted To.

3 As the Iraqis Stand Up, It’s Time for the United States to Clear Out.

4 China: The Global Superpower Goes for the Gold . . . Ours.

5 The Family’s a Corporation Where I Hold All the Voting Shares.

6 The Bush Legacy: Imperial Reign, Impeachable Ruin.

7 Time to Raise Our Grades in Education, Immigration, and Energy.

8 Are We Safer Yet? A World of Foreign Policy Troubles Left Behind.

9 Marriage and Fatherhood Work Best as Sobering Experiences.

10 Debt and Revival.

11 The $1 Billion Battle to Mortgage Our Future.

12 The New Prez’s Real Campaign Begins: To Fix Our Broken Nation.

Epilogue: One Change We Didn’t Need but Are Learning to Live With.

Acknowledgments.

Index.

Editorial Reviews

During recent years, CNN commentator Jack Cafferty has gotten himself in network trouble more than once over his scathing critiques of the Bush administration, the Democratic-controlled Congress, and numerous foreign leaders. That unapologetic candor has also won him a large audience eager to learn his views on news of the breaking day. In Now or Never, he excoriates the incompetents and liars who he believes are hurting our country and defiling the American Dream.

In the irascible style of his on-air CNN soap box The Cafferty Files, veteran political reporter and talking head Cafferty (It's Getting Ugly Out There) delivers an uncompromising account of George W. Bush's presidency and the current state of affairs in the U.S., focusing on the invasion of Iraq and the insider deals between the Bush/Cheney administration and corporations like Exxon and Enron. Also scrutinized is Bush's lackadaisical attitude toward the growing threat of inner Afghanistan turmoil, the brittle relationship between the U.S. and China, and new class warfare in a cratering economy. Perhaps more importantly, Cafferty recaps the 2008 presidential election, addressing the strategies that lost McCain-Palin the presidency and the cascade of problems Obama has inherited. The stolid Cafferty even takes an occasional step back from politics to offer glimpses of his family and his own climb to success, a personal touch that should surprise Caffety's fans almost as much as his sincere belief in a coming turn for the better.
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