The New New Deal

Michael Grunwald

ISBN 10: 1451642334 / ISBN 13: 9781451642339

Verlag: Sep 2013, 2013

Neuware -A New York Times bestseller, now with a new foreword by the author, The New New Deal is a riveting story about change in the Obama era an essential handbook for citizens who want the truth about the president, his record, and his enemies. Drawing on new documents and interviews with more than 400 sources, award-winning reporter Michael Grunwald reveals the vivid story behind one of the most important and least understood laws in U.S. history, President Obama s $800 billion stimulus. Grunwald s New York Times bestseller shows how the politically disastrous stimulus was a real new New Deal, preventing a depression while jumpstarting the president s ambitious agenda for lasting change. It launched America s transition to a clean-energy economy, established the boldest education reform in U.S. history, overhauled the nation s antipoverty programs, and funded the most extensive infrastructure investments since Eisenhower s interstate highway system. This is the definitive account not only of a transformative law, but of a transformative president s first term. 544 pp. Englisch. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9781451642339

Inhaltsangabe:

A New York Times bestseller, now with a new foreword by the author, The New New Deal is a riveting story about change in the Obama era—an essential handbook for citizens who want the truth about the president, his record, and his enemies.

Drawing on new documents and interviews with more than 400 sources, award-winning reporter Michael Grunwald reveals the vivid story behind one of the most important and least understood laws in U.S. history, President Obama’s $800 billion stimulus. Grunwald’s New York Times bestseller shows how the politically disastrous stimulus was a real new New Deal, preventing a depression while jumpstarting the president’s ambitious agenda for lasting change. It launched America’s transition to a clean-energy economy, established the boldest education reform in U.S. history, overhauled the nation’s antipoverty programs, and funded the most extensive infrastructure investments since Eisenhower’s interstate highway system. This is the definitive account not only of a transformative law, but of a transformative president’s first term.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: Michael Grunwald is the bestselling author of two widely acclaimed books, The Swamp and The New New Deal. He’s a former staff writer for The Washington Post, Time, and POLITICO and winner of the George Polk Award for national reporting, the Worth Bingham Award for investigative reporting, and many other journalism prizes. He lives in Miami.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: The New New Deal
Verlag: Sep 2013
Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
Einband: Taschenbuch
Zustand: Neu