Locked in the Cabinet
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| Rating | : | 4.24 (981 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0375700617 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 368 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-05-19 |
| Language | : | English |
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Reed Mencke said I have followed Robert Recih for years and consider his. I have followed Robert Recih for years and consider his ideas about the American Economy a pathway of wisdom. I read this book out of personal curiosity about his relationship to Bill and Hillary Clinton and how he felt about the Clinton presidency. The book provided all that and more. It is a seemingly frank perspective on the first four year;s of Bill Clinton . Great stories from a great leader Saturday's child I'm not sure how Robert Reich got away with telling all these candid, intimate (and not always flattering) stories about his friends and associates in the Clinton administration's halls of power, but I'm glad he has. Very eye-opening. And funny. And the best stories are at his own expense. A man who wears his brilliance with great humility.. "The Politics of Mud Wrestling" according to Robert Carlberg. Reich is absolutely brilliant and this book presents a good dollop of his wisdom. Few people in politics are driven by ideals anymore, which makes Reich's laser focus on improving economic inequity all the more laudable. And doomed. In fact, this book explains a whole lot about how & why Clinton's first term of office became such a disappointment. "B" (as Reich,
We experience, for instance, the angst of having to let his two sons and wife go back to the family home in Cambridge because he can't quite yet leave the struggle for such improvements as an increase in the minimum wage. Reich, a warm and lively writer who because of his 'Friend Of Bill' status and his strong positions on economic issues was inside virtually every political and ideological tussle of the Clinton administration's first term. What puts the book over the top though is that its author retains his humanity even after walking through the looking glass of official Washington. On the face of it, here's an improbable book: a memoir of four years as Secretary of Labor. Well, in this case it works because the author is Robert B. Throughout it all, Reich keeps the sharp eye of the outsider. Witness for example this comment about Newt Gingrich: "His office is adorned with figurine
And it is also an odyssey for Reich's wife and two young sons, who learn to tolerate their own cabinet member but not to abide Washington.Here is Reich--determined to work for a more just society, laboring in a capital obsessed with exorcising the deficit and keeping Wall Street happy--learning that Washington is not only altogether different from the world of ordinary citizens but ultimately, and more importantly, exactly like it: a world in which Murphy's Law reigns alongside the powerful and the privileged, but where hope amazingly persists. There are triumphs here to fill a lifetime, and frustrations to fill two more. He introduces us to the career bureaucrats who make Washington run and the politicians who, on occasion, make it stop; to business tycoons and labor leaders who clash by day and party together by night; to a president who wants to change America and his opponents (on both the left and the right) who want to keep it as it is or return it to where it used to be. Locked in the Cabinet is a close-up view of the way things work, and often don't work, at the highest levels of government--and a uniquely personal account by the man whose ideas inspired and animated much of the Clinton campaign of 1992 and who became the cabinet officer in charge of helping ordinary Americans get better jobs. And to the places across America where those who are the objects of this drama are simply trying to get by--assembly lines, sweatshop