The War at Home: The Corporate Offensive from Ronald Reagan to George W. Bush [Paperback]

Jack Rasmus (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 2, 2006

"A hard-hitting, full-scale account of the corporate assault on American working people. No one seeing all the strands of that attack brought together in one place can feel anything but outrage. Rasmus's stirring book is for labor activists, but its effect will be to create a lot more labor activists than there already are. A great job!" -- David Brody, Professor Emeritus of History, Univ. of California, Davis. "Did you like Howard Zinn's, A People's History of the United States? If so, you are going to love the new book by Jack Rasmus, THE WAR AT HOME: The Corporate Offensive From Ronald Reagan to George W. Bush. Rasmus effectively picks up the story where Zinn leaves off....His book is an excellent complement and companion to Zinn's popular work....Give THE WAR AT HOME a look. It is a sobering and path-breaking effort to 'put it all in one place'."

Editorial Reviews

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'War At Home' is a path-breaking work that will stand as a milestone...read it and spread the word -- 'Z' Magazine, September 2005, by Larry Shoup, Ph.D.

(The War At Home) provides a wealth of information on the campaign to do more for those that have more. -- 'Bay Guardian' Monthly, October 2005, by Tom Gallagher

Did you like Howard Zinn's, A People's History? If so, you'll love this new book by Jack Rasmus -- 'The Dispatcher', July-August 2005, by Harvey Schwartz, Ph.D.

From the Publisher

This book is neither typical contemporary literary journalism nor a passion-less, dry academic treatise. Unlike the former, which today are works of little more than opinion, based on few verifiable facts, and characterized by cheering to the crowd of 'true believers', whether left or right, THE WAR AT HOME provides a virtual mountain of referenceable material from government and other reputable sources; and unlike the latter, it is written in a lively, readable prose devoid of arcane theory and refuses to eschew partisan argument in the name of a false claim to objectivity. The book's themes include explaining why 60 million Americans no longer have regular, permanent full time jobs, why $11.6 trillion in taxes is being shifted from the middle class to the wealthiest 10%, how more than $4 trillion has been permanently siphoned off from the Social Security Trust Fund by politicians, what caused 97,000 pension plans to go bust, why 46 million Americans today have no health insurance and why out-of-pocket medical expenses will double in the next few years, why eight million quality jobs in the U.S. have been lost due to Free Trade, and why millions more jobs will continue to be rapidly exported to China, India and Latin America.

Where future corporate and Bush administration policies are headed in George W. Bush’s second term and beyond are further topics of discussion—as well as the political restructuring that has been occurring in parallel with the corporate-driven economic restructuring of the last quarter century. How both the Republican and Democratic parties have fundamentally changed, prospects for election outcomes in 2006 and 2008, and how the economic and political restructuring since 1980 led to the recent split in the AFL-CIO, and what next for organized Labor in America, are additional topics also addressed.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 536 pages
• Publisher: Kyklos Productions; 1 edition (January 2, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0977106209
• ISBN-13: 978-0977106202
• Product Dimensions: 7.7 x 5.2 x 1.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #995,365 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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20 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The War At Home, February 9, 2006

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Bruce E. Dettman (San Francisco) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The War at Home: The Corporate Offensive from Ronald Reagan to George W. Bush (Paperback)

No dispensable academic tome, THE WAR AT HOME, while providing a monumentally researched analysis of those well-orchestrated government abuses designed and implemented over the last three decades to enlarge and reward corporate America at the expense of labor, the small business man and the American family, also functions as a kind of workbook or primer for change.

Rasmus carefully breaks the book down into separate chronological studies of such issues as Health Care, Free Trade, Tax Shifts and Social Security, methodically walks the reader through a mind field of crippling historical developments characterized by corporate malfeasance and political chicanery, then offers possible approaches and even solutions to the multi-layered. problems.

This is a compelling, richly documented and incite fully constructed work that seeks to both define strategies and to suggest remedy.

I would recommend it highly.

13 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars review of JacK Rasmus, WAR AT HOME, January 12, 2006

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David Schwartz - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The War at Home: The Corporate Offensive from Ronald Reagan to George W. Bush (Paperback)

This is an exciting, comphrensive assessment of the political economy of the US during the last 25 years. It shows how power has been developed, and by whom, over this period of time. It explains why we are where we are. Everyone with an interest in American political and economic history should read this book. It really puts everything in one place. It is a heck of an analysis. I highly recommend it to all.