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Crossroads : The Future of American Politics |
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With the United States standing as the world's lone superpower and its two competing parties locked in eternal squabble, former HUD Secretary Andrew Cuomo has gathered together several notables to offer their visions of where America goes next. All of the Democratic presidential candidates active in the summer of 2003 are represented with vague essay versions of broad ranging stump speeches while President George W. Bush is conspicuously absent. But conservatives and liberals alike should find plenty that cheers and vexes them in essays by righties Bernard Goldberg, Peggy Noonan, and Georgette Mosbacher and lefties Nancy Pelosi, President Bill Clinton, and Jesse L. Jackson, Jr. And although their perspectives differ, most writers stake positions that are fairly centrist. One wishes Cuomo could have culled opinions from further out on the spectrum (although Sean "P. Diddy" Colmes offers an energetic, if not quite empirical, exploration on why today’s kids don't vote). The book could have been more dynamic if the banal ranting of Goldberg had been replaced by the more unique Pat Buchanan. And if the left is to be truly represented, where are the Zinns, Chomskys, and other liberals further out on the curve? While the book aspires to be a survey of the future of the nation, many of the essays seem to zero in on what the Democrats need to do to get elected again and what the outcome of the 2002 mid-term election means to the political landscape. There is plenty of intelligent discourse and provocative thinking, however. Standout essays include former Republican congressman and talk show host Joe Scarborough offering blunt advice for the Democrats, former Nixon aide Peter Peterson criticizing both parties for misguided economics, and pollster John Zogby forecasting what issues will dominate in election cycles to come. Crossroads will stand as a snapshot of American politics in the autumn of 2003, when many Democrats raced in a close contest for the opportunity to deny Bush a second term while the situation in post-war Iraq seemed perilously uncertain. In future years, most presidential aspirants featured here will be historical footnotes and there's no telling what the world might look like. --John Moe
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