We Can All Do Better (23 page)

9
. “FPA Statesman Dinner,” Foreign Policy Association, Dec. 6, 2011, accessed at
http://www.fpa.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/Statesman%20Dinner_Kaufman_2011.pdf
, p. 5.

10
. Dan Burrows, “Chuck Prince, Former Citigroup CEO, Says He's Sorry,”
dailyfinance.com
, April 8, 2010.

11
. From a lecture by Warren Buffett in spring 1991 at Notre Dame. See
http://www.tilsonfunds.com/BuffettNotreDame.pdf
.

12
. From “Citi Chief on Buyouts: ‘We're Still Dancing,'”
New York Times
Dealbook, July 10, 2007.

13
. “The Martin Era,”
Time
, February 2, 1970.

14
. Henry Kaufman, “Irresponsible Financial Behavior,” remarks delivered before the Carnegie Council, New York City, June 20, 2011.

Chapter 5

1
. Yochai Benkler,
The Penguin and the Leviathan: How Cooperation Triumphs over Self-Interest
(New York: Crown, 2011), 246.

2
. Bill Drayton, “Collaborative Entrepreneurship,” accessed at
http://www.ashoka.org/sites/ashoka/files/Innovations_Collab_Ent_with_Empathy_Overview.pdf
.

Chapter 6

1
. Sabrina Tavernise, “Soaring Poverty Casts Spotlight on ‘Lost Decade,'”
New York Times
, Sept. 13, 2010.

2
. Robert B. Reich, “The Limping Middle Class,”
New York Times
, Sept. 3, 2011.

3
. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Poverty Guidelines, January 2011.

4
. “Income, Poverty and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2010,” U.S. Census Bureau, Sept. 13, 2011, accessed at
http://www.census.gov/newsroom/releases/archives/income_wealth/cb11-157.html
.

5
. Quoted in Edward Luce, “The Crisis of Middle Class America,”
FT.Com
/FT Magazine, July 30, 2010.

6
. “Median and Average Sales Prices of New Homes Sold in United States,” U.S. Census Bureau, accessed at
http://www.census.gov/const/uspricemon.pdf
.

7
. Les Christie, “30% of Mortgages Are Underwater,”
CNNMoney.com
, Feb. 9, 2011, accessed at
http://money.cnn.com/2011/02/09/real_estate/underwater_mortgages_rising/index.htm
; and Dan Levy, “U.S. Underwater
Mortgages May Reach 30%, Zillow Says,” Bloomberg online, Aug. 11, 2009, accessed at
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=arpJHI9U42Rs
.

8
. Adrian Sainz, “Economy, Households, Banks Feel Drag from Pullback on Home-Equity Loans,”
Seattle
Times, Dec. 25, 2009, accessed at
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2010598093_homeequity26.html
.

9
. Mark Perry, “Manufacturing Jobs Drop to Lowest Level Since 1941, Below 9% of Workforce for the First Time,”
DailyMarkets.com
, Aug. 21, 2009, accessed at
http://www.dailymarkets.com/economy/2009/08/20/manufacturing-jobs-drop-to-lowest-level-since-1941-below-9-of-workforce-for-the-first-time
.

10
. Richard McCormack, “The Plight of American Manufacturing,”
American Prospect
, December 21, 2009.-

11
. E-mail on Dec. 7, 20011, from Hal Sirkin, coauthor of “Made in America, Again,” The Boston Consulting Group, August 2011.

12
. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, “Current Employment Statistics, December 2011.”

13
. Federal Reserve Board, “G.17 Statistics Release: Industrial Production and Capacity Utilization.”

14
. See
http://money.cnn.com/2010/05/06/news/international/china_america.fortuneindex.htm
.

15
. James K. Jackson, “Foreign Investment, CFIUS, and Homeland Security: An Overview,” Foreign Press Centers, Nov. 5, 2009, accessed at
http://fpc.state.gov/documents/organization/133876.pdf
, p. 4.

16
. United Nations Conference on Trade & Development (UNCTAD), World Development Report, Annex Table 01.

17
. Jon Gertner, “Does America Need Manufacturing,”
New York Times
, August 24, 2011.

18
. Susan Hockfield, “Manufacturing a Recovery,”
New York Times
, August 29, 2011.

19
. Ibid.

20
. J. Bradford Jensen,
Global Trade in Services: Fear, Facts and Offshoring
(Washington, DC: Peterson Institute for International Economics, 2011).

21
. Peter Mott, “Single-Payer Health System Could Save Billions,” Physicians for a National Health Program, Dec. 7, 2008, accessed at
http://www.pnhp.org/news/2008/december/singlepayer_health_.php
; and Bernie Sanders, “Health Care,” Feb. 11, 2012, accessed at
http://sanders.senate.gov/legislation/issue/?id=a5823331-b1c8-46a1-864f-a5986cf82a9b
.

22
. Bill Drayton, “Hire People, Retire Things,” What Matters, July 19, 2011, accessed at
http://whatmatters.mckinseydigital.com
.

23
. Ibid.

24
. June Taylor, Phil Heinrich, et al., “Job Creation Tax Options, Summary,” Get America Working, Dec. 1, 2011, accessed at
http://www.getamericaworking.org/node/21
.

25
. E-mails from Steve Kent and June Thomas, Get America Working!, Jan. 4, 2012.

Chapter 7

1
. James MacGregor Burns,
The Workshop of Democracy
(New York: Knopf, 1985), 543.

2
. “The Great Depression,”
History.com
, accessed at
http://www.history.com/topics/great-depression
.

3
. Jean Edward Smith,
FDR
(New York: Random House, 2008), 289.

4
. Ibid.

5
. David R. Francis, “Supply-siders Take Some Lumps,”
Christian Science Monitor
, October 1, 2007.

6
. George Lakoff, “Why Democracy Is Public: The American Dream Beats the Nightmare,”
HuffingtonPost
, July 28, 2011, accessed at
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/george-lakoff/why-democracy-is-public-t_b_911205.html
.

Chapter 8

1
. John M. Barry,
The Great Influenza
(Penguin, 2004), 302.

2
. George Kennan,
American Diplomacy 1900—1950
(IL: University of Chicago Press, 1951), 69.

3
. Joseph Nye, “Optimistic or Pessimistic About America,”
Commentary Magazine
, Oct. 30, 2011, accessed at
http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2011/10/30/optimistic-or-pessimistic-about-america-joseph-nye

4
. Brady E. Hamilton, Joyce A. Martin, and Stephanie J. Ventura, “Births: Preliminary Data for 2010,” Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, accessed at
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr60/nvsr60_02.pdf
, page 4; and George Friedman,
The Next Hundred Years
(New York: Anchor Books, 2010), 53–54.

5
. Rickety, “2010 Defense Spending by Country,” Rickety blog, June 4, 2011, accessed at
http://www.rickety.us/2011/06/2010-defense-spending-by-country
.

6
. William Overholt, personal e-mail that reflects the central theme of his 2008 book,
Asia, America and the Transformation of Geopolitics
(New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007).

7
. Clay Dillow, “In 2020, Take a High-Speed Train from Beijing to London,”
Popular
Science, March 16, 2010, accessed at
http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2010-03/china-plans-beijing-london-high-speed-rail-link
.

8
. Michael Heath and Jason Scott, “Australia Boom Means Men Without Degree Earn More Than Bernanke,” Bloomberg online, April 1, 2011, accessed at
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-04-01/australia-boom-means-men-without-degree-earn-more-than-bernanke.html
.

9
. “FIFO, FIFO; It's Off to Work We Go,” Flights Australia blog, Sept. 22, 2011, accessed at
http://www.flightsaustralia.com.au/blog/?p=11
.

10
. David Caploe, “China High-End Value added—the German Connection,”
economywatch.com
, September 14, 2010; and “VDMA Steps Up Fight Against Product Piracy,” accessed at
http://www.vdma.org/wps/portal/Home/en/Branchen/P/KUG/Presse/kug_A_20100526_VDMA_fight_against_product_piracy_en?WCM_GLOBAL_CONTEXT=/vdma/Home/en/Branchen/P/KUG/Presse/kug_A_20100526_VDMA_fight_against_product_piracy_en
.

11
. Daniel Schäfer, “Chinese Push into Germany's Heart and Soul,”
Financial Times
, October 11, 2010.

12
. Kishore Mahbubani, “Smart Power, Chinese Style,” The American Interest, March/April 2008, accessed at
http://www.the-american-interest.com/article-bd.cfm?piece=406
.

13
. Personal communication from William H. Overholt; about his multiple conversations with Chinese diplomats, academics, and generals, including General Pan of China Reform Forum, the Think Tank of the Central Party School of the Chinese Communist Party.

14
. Joel Brenner,
America the Vulnerable: Inside the New Threat Matrix of Digital Espionage, Crime and Warfare
(New York: Penguin Press, 2011), p. 118.

15
. William H. Overholt, “Awaiting Xi Jinping: The New China,”
Washington Quarterly Review
, March 2012; and Chas Freeman (Ambassador and USFS, Ret.), speech at China Maritime Institute, Naval War College, Newport, Rhode Island, May 10, 2011.

Chapter 9

1
. Wallace Stegner,
Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West
(New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1954), 304.

2
. The American Promise, March 15, 1965; and also
Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon Johnson, 1965
(Government Printing Office, 1966), Vol. 1, entry 107, 281–287.

3
. Paul Krugman, “The Conscience of a Liberal,”
New York Times
, July 28, 2009.

4
. “2012 Competitive House Race Chart,” Cook Political Report, Jan. 26, 2012, and updated Feb. 9, 2012, accessed at
http://cookpolitical.com/charts/house/competitive.php
.

5
. George Lakoff,
Thinking Points: Communicating Our American Values and Vision
(Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2006), see generally Chapter 2, “Biconceptualism”; see also
http://www.cognitivepolicyworks.com/resource-center/thinking-points
.

6
. “2004 Servey of Consumer Finances: Summary Results,” Federal Reserve, accessed at
http://www.federalreserve.gov/econresdata/scf/scf_2004.htm
. An easier-to-digest form of the data is found in Alice H. Munnell and Steven A. Sass,
Working Longer: The Solution to the Retirement Income Challenge
(Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2009), 5.

7
. Jim Meyers and Kathleen Walter, “Rove: There Won't Be a Third-Party Candidate,” Newsmax, Nov. 29, 2011, accessed at
http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/Rove-Third-Party-Candidate/2011/11/28/id/419316
.

8
. Most of the Americans Elect information can be found through the AE Briefing Book, which is available on the AE website,
http://static.americanselect.org/sites/files/official-documents/AE%20Candidate%20Book%2011.pdf
; see also
http://static.americanselect.org/sites/files/official-documents/AE%20ONE%20SHEET.pdf
; see also AE's draft rules for potential candidates at
http://static.americanselect.org/sites/files/official-documents/Draft%209-30-11%20Rules.pdf
; see also general nominating information at
http://www.americanselect.org/official-documents
.

Adams, Henry.
History of the United States of America During the Administrations of Thomas Jefferson
.

———.
History of the United States of America During the Second Administration of Thomas Jefferson, 1805–1809, Volume 2
.

Allen, Frederick Lewis.
Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920s
.

Boorstin, Daniel J.
The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America
.

Branch, Taylor.
Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954–1963
.

Brown, Dee Alexander.
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
.

Burns, James MacGregor.
The Vineyard of Liberty: The American Experiment, Volume 1
.

———.
The Workshop of Democracy: The American Experiment, Volume 2
.

———.
Crossroads of Freedom: The American Experiment, Volume 3
.

Caro, Robert A.
The Path to Power (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Volume 1)
.

———.
Means of Ascent (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Volume 2)
.

———.
Master of the Senate (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Volume 3)
.