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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Lindsey, Lawrence. What a president should know (but most learn too late). Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, ©2008 (OCoLC)624638665 |
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Named Person: | Lawrence Lindsey; Lawrence Lindsey |
Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Lawrence Lindsey; Marc Sumerlin |
ISBN: | 9780742562226 0742562220 |
OCLC Number: | 145732875 |
Description: | ix, 246 pages ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Inside the Oval, again -- The corrupting walls of the West Wing -- Pay any price, bear any burden -- Engaging the enemy -- Are we ready for another dark day? -- At the helm of the economy -- A world of porous borders -- Tackling the big problems confronting America -- The reaction to fear itself -- The end of the line -- Don't stay too long. |
Responsibility: | Lawrence B. Lindsey with Marc Sumerlin. |
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Agree or disagree, Larry Lindsey's advice to the next president makes a crackling good read. As you turn the pages, you may find yourself alternately smiling and frowning. But you'll want to keep turning-and you should. -- Alan S. Blinder, professor of Economics, Princeton University; former Vice Chairman, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System; former member, President's Council of Economic Advisers Larry Lindsey has provided a roadmap for how the next President can and should lead this nation through hazardous times. Readers of this book are taken directly into the Oval Office, to a world where decisions are high stakes and actions have consequences. You won't want to put it down. -- Fred Thompson This is a book for everyone who is interested in the next occupant of the White House-including every presidential aspirant. Larry Lindsey writes with the expertise of an economist who taught at Harvard and a former Governor of the Federal Reserve and with the policy wisdom of someone who has worked in the White House in the Administrations of Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, and George W. Bush. -- Martin S. Feldstein, president and CEO of the National Bureau of Economic Research and former chairman of the President's Council of Economic Adviser This book is a real good read. Any President would benefit by his understanding of the way the process works inside the Oval Office. In fact, it would be valuable to anyone in any management position. Democrats may not agree with all the conclusions, but this is a great discussion of the policy choices the country faces. -- Tom Foley, former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Agree with him or not, Larry Lindsey is always worth reading. -- Senator Joe Biden Whether our next president actually reads this book, voters would be well-advised to do so as a means of refocusing their attention on competence and effectiveness, which matter so little during the campaign, and will matter so much when the winner takes office. * Chicago Sun-Times * This useful book's common-sense prescriptions concerning economic and military policy become uncommon when political pressures emerge. * WORLD, February 2008 * Lindsey's hook is a package of memos surrepitiously smuggled onto the president's desk on Inauguration Day 2009. They form the core of each chapter and are preceded by a narrative setting out some of the relevant history and policy background (and often Lindsey's own experience at the White House-a topic of interest in its own right). ...Some of the substantive suggestions are likely to interest a Republican president. But even a Democratic one will surely benefit from the description of policy history, process, and current contextual challenge. * Public Administration Review, September/October 2009 * Read more...

