About this title: The award-winning human-rights activist and advisor to policymakers and presidential candidates delivers a 21st-century economic plan to rescue working-class Americans.
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: HarperOne
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780061650758ISBN:0061650757
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: HarperOne
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780061650758ISBN:0061650757
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: HARPER COLLINS
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9780061650765ISBN:0061650765
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: HarperOne
Date Published: 2008-10-01
ISBN-13:9780061650758ISBN:0061650757
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: HarperOne
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9780061650765ISBN:0061650765
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"Another book I read because it was one of the titles the committee I'm on is considering to be our "One Campus, One Book" title, I found the book an easy read that made some great points. I really would like to see us put our resources into a greener economy-in my mind an "Green Deal" could really change things. Unfortunately, the book was very much "date stamped" as being before the 2008 election and reading it is reading a list of things that *could* happen that are already not happening. I felt, too, that while Van Jones' core argument is very good, he spends a lot of time delivering wishy-washy platitudes designed to sell the book to various constituencies. An interesting read of a policy that could be but fast seems to be becoming "what could have been"."
"Subtitled "How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems" I heard the author speak at the U of M - fascinating! A very hopeful book about our present day socioeconomic and environmental crises. Our parents and grandparents solved difficult problems of their generations for us - can we do less for future generations?"
"I think that if I weren't a hypercritical law student this would have been fantastic. For the most part, I appreciate what he is saying and recommend reading it despite my anxiety about he is appropriating the ideas, and riding on the backs of the efforts, of many before him with not so much as a nod of the head. :\"
"I hate not finishing a book, but I really couldn't choke through another page of this. I feel like the title is a bit misleading: it is about a potential green collar economy, but what it doesn't tell you (or any of the glowing reviews on the back cover, which in hindsight didn't reference the book at all) is the huge bitter, racial undercurrent that underlies the narrative.
Perhaps I'm being too flippant, because race and environmental responsibility is a legitimate issue that needs to be addressed (why I gave the book two stars instead of the .05 I want to give it), but in this Obama day and age - full disclosure, I am on the kool-aid - I feel like the rhetoric of race needs to be different in order for it to be effective. Not to mention that the author doesn't really provide any kind of substance to back up his claims, other than a loose association with Katrina. (Yes, Katrina was really bad and the last administration totally botched that up, but what does that have to do with establishing a solid energy policy independent of foreign oil? No firm association was provided, that I could see anyway.)
I got through around 70 pages of the book, and for anyone who finishes it and/or wants to convince me otherwise of how wrong I am on this, I will gladly listen."
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