War on the Middle Class: How the Government, Big Business, and Special Interest Groups are Waging War on the American Dream and How to Fight Back by Lou Dobbs

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Prominent CNN host and commentator Lou Dobbs unleashes his manifesto on the vanishing American dream.

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The New York Times - David Sirota

It is undeniable that aside from Dobbs and a few politicians, America’s political debate is almost entirely devoid of economic populists. War on the Middle Class confronts this problem head-on — and thanks to Dobbs’s passion and charisma, it succeeds in sounding an alarm that cannot be ignored.

Publishers Weekly

Though a self-confessed "lifelong Republican and a strong believer in free enterprise," Dobbs's opinions have evolved away from mainline GOP and corporate dogma. Charging that the Clinton and Bush administrations have waged "class warfare" on the American middle class, he criticizes their free trade policies, which have eliminated manufacturing jobs in the U.S., either outright or by outsourcing them. He's scornful of a GOP that panders to its fundamentalist religious base with bills that focus on abortion, gay marriage and the Pledge of Allegiance while the huge federal deficits ("an estate tax on the middle class and their children") spiral out of control. He rails against the K Street lobbyists, like Jack Abramoff, and their friends in Congress; chastises the credit card and banking industries for engineering the new bankruptcy law to their own profits; and criticizes the press for its sloppy "he says, she says" journalism. But Dobbs risks slipping from populist to demagogue in his jeremiad against the estimated 11 million illegal immigrants in this country and his support for the vigilante Minuteman Project. Agree with him or not, Dobbs remains a refreshingly bold thinker who refuses to be intellectually pigeonholed. (Oct. 9) Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

Library Journal

They're underrepresented, underserved by healthcare, and, given outsourcing, underemployed. So CNN pundit Dobbs wants members of the middle class to retaliate. With a six-city tour. Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

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