A Nation of Wusses
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A Nation of Wusses

How America's Leaders Lost the Guts to Make Us Great

  1. 256 pages
  2. English
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A Nation of Wusses

How America's Leaders Lost the Guts to Make Us Great

About this book

Governor Ed Rendell explains why America's leaders rarely call for sacrifice for the greater good—to avoid making any sacrifices themselves!

Rendell has seen job security become the primary consideration of any person with power in America—their own job security! Most politicians and bureaucrats can see no further ahead than the next election, sometimes no further than the next press conference. Americans are rarely afraid of sacrifice and hard work when they mean building a better future, but when was the last time you heard of a leader of anything making a sacrifice for the greater good? The people can only win when they make it clear to the powers that be that making the right choices, even the hard ones, is the key to winning the next election.

  • Explains in rollicking stories ranging from the profane to the profound that most hard choices are only "hard" because the polls conflict with your principles
  • Ed Rendell rose to the top of Philadelphia, then Pennsylvania, then national politics, by doing what he thought was right, and there were plenty of times that looked like it would be his downfall as well
  • This book revisits the high points of Ed Rendell's career and current landscape to define the political fights his peers seem just as afraid of winning as losing
  • Rendell is a former head of the Democratic National Committee, a current MSNBC Senior Political Analyst, and a Partner at Ballard Spahr LLP

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Introduction
  7. Chapter 1: The Wussification of America
  8. Chapter 2: “We’re Mad as Hell and We’re Not Going to Take It Anymore!”
  9. Chapter 3: “I Wear Blue, Take Me Too!”
  10. Chapter 4: Only a Smart Jewish Lawyer Can Turn This City Around
  11. Chapter 5: The Truth about Waste, Fraud, and Abuse
  12. Chapter 6: “Fast Eddie, We Are Ready!”
  13. Chapter 7: What’s a Nice Jewish Boy Doing Holding Hands with Louis Farrakhan?
  14. Chapter 8: “We Don’t Cover Plane Landings!”
  15. Chapter 9: “Harper Valley PTA”
  16. Chapter 10: Animals I Have Known
  17. Chapter 11: How to Get Uninvited to a Christmas Party You Were Never Invited To
  18. Chapter 12: How My Love Affair with Philadelphia Made Me Governor
  19. Chapter 13: Lobbyists’ Rule
  20. Chapter 14: “Behold the Turtle”
  21. Chapter 15: How Two Young Non-Wuss Pittsburgh Women Stared Down the Haitian and US Governments
  22. Chapter 16: Sports and Politics
  23. Chapter 17: “Like a Sturgeon”
  24. Chapter 18: “Hillary, Hillary . . .”
  25. Chapter 19: Change We Can Believe In
  26. Chapter 20: “Know When to Fold ’Em”
  27. Chapter 21: Please, Please Don’t Honor Me
  28. Chapter 22: Build, Baby, Build
  29. Chapter 23: Stand and Defend
  30. Chapter 24: “The Charge of the Wuss Brigade!”
  31. Chapter 25: Does Government Create Jobs?
  32. Chapter 26: Is Honesty the Best Policy?
  33. Chapter 27: The Top Ten Reasons Why Most American Politicians Are Wusses
  34. Chapter 28: How to Get Our Democracy Back on Track—Electoral Reform
  35. Conclusion
  36. Acknowledgments
  37. Index