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Independents Day: Awakening the American Spirit Kindle Edition

by Lou Dobbs (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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From The New York Times bestselling author of War on the Middle Class, a powerful look at the critical issues facing America on the eve of the 2008 Presidential election

With up to a million viewers each day, Lou Dobbs Tonight has become one of the most popular news programs in the nation. Now Dobbs, whose last book, War on the Middle Class, captured the plight of working Americans, asks the question: What has happened to the American dream? By examining the disastrous pubic policy choices that have eroded individual liberties, reduced workers rights and pay, and led our nation into division at home as well as into conflict around the world, Dobbs charts a determined course that will restore the fundamental equality of rights and opportunity for all Americans. I n a time of acute political turmoil, this is a book of vital importance from a revered independent.
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    November 6, 2007
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Author and journalist Dobbs (War on the Middle Class), best known for the snub-nosed populism of his nightly CNN news program Lou Dobbs Tonight, presents a thoughtful case against American political strategies past and present, encouraging citizens to "live every day as independent day." Pointing to the "near-epidemic levels" of "business scandals, Capitol Hill ethics violations, White House spin, and corporate layoffs," Dobbs concludes that "disregard for the will of the people" is the new status quo among the government and business elite. Contending that "our government rationalizes away the common good and our national interest," the author unfurls tales of partisanship, unfathomable plunges into debt, the ramifications of cheap labor, a stomach-lurching account of who owns what we generally regard as our public highways, and "the Pontius Pilate way the government washes its hands of involvement in those matters it has assigned to contractors." Issues range from immigration to trade policy to the poor state of public education and the celebrity takeover of news media. Dobbs' polemic is a four-alarm wake-up call meant to jar America's populace into reclaiming their values and voice; presenting a culmination of disturbing trends that may soon relegate "our national sovereignty to history's dustbin," Dobbs's troubling news will give any citizen much to ponder.
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

About the Author

Lou Dobbs is the anchor and managing editor of CNN’s Lou Dobbs Tonight. He writes for Money and U.S. News & World Report and manages the Lou Dobbs Money Letter. He has received the Peabody Award, the Luminary Award by the Business Journalism Review, the Horatio Alger Association Award for Distinguished Americans, as well as an Emmy Lifetime Achievement award.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B000W94DL6
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Penguin Books (November 6, 2007)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ November 6, 2007
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 648 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
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  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 268 pages
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Herb Voigt
5.0 out of 5 stars Lou Dobbs Indipendance day
Reviewed in the United States on October 21, 2010
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Lou Dobbs hit the nail right on the head. Very interesting to read. The least I know now that I am not the only one who thinks on this line. I found over the years that most people are like ostriches with their head in the sand. It looks like these people, eveso they should realize it, do not want to know the truce.
I will stick to my way of seeing things and I will not get any nasty surprises in the future.

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Darla Lee Stewart
5.0 out of 5 stars Lou Dobbs is terrific!!
Reviewed in the United States on January 11, 2018
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Lou Dobbs is terrific !!!The book is great We watch him every nite on Fox.. If you want the truth listen to Him he tells it like it is. The book is a grat read. Thanks Lou for standing up for America and our great President Donald Trump......
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Richard Van Scoyk
5.0 out of 5 stars This should be mandatory reading!
Reviewed in the United States on November 9, 2009
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Independents Day: Awakening the American Spirit should be mandatory reading for all Americans. I read it after the election, but still found it timely and appropriate. Lou Dobbs is one of the reasons I am proud to be an American. If you want more out of a book than entertainment, read this!
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Howard E. Smith
5.0 out of 5 stars Meet the Press has a new host.
Reviewed in the United States on October 1, 2008
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After reading the book I think we have found the new host for Meet The Press. The perfect un-biased host. As Tim Russert did, he leans a little to the left, but has a very un-biased opinion on both sides of the coin. Wouldn't it be nice.

Howard Smith
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M. Samuel Sherwood
1.0 out of 5 stars Not up to expectations
Reviewed in the United States on December 5, 2009
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Dobbs is billed as a conservative which by this book would show he is not. I am so disappointed when "Conservative" writers are so unaware of the writings of Karl Marx, Frederich Engels, Trotsky and other socialist writers. His ignorance of what a American constitutionalist really is makes one think that he has been listening to the pundits of his former network too much and not spending enough time in the library.

His diatribe against the Republicans AND Democrats is refreshing, though something we have heard over and over since George Wallace declared there isn't a dime's worth of difference between them, so, "Lou, what's new?" Great you just caught up with 1960's political scene.

This book is repetitive, boring and gives little new information to the initiated in Washington shenanigans. To the novice casual observer of mainly CNN/NBC cable news, it will be a shocking revelation. So, to those who know, skip it. To those who don't, prepare to see the sun rise in a different place.
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Carol N. Green
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book
Reviewed in the United States on April 6, 2008
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This book was very enjoyable, but scary. What will happen to our country if our leaders continue in this manner? I agree with Lou Dobbs and he is not afraid to say it like it is.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United States on April 16, 2015
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Awesome!
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Mark A. Johnson
5.0 out of 5 stars Buy this book!
Reviewed in the United States on December 17, 2007
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This is easy to read and enjoy. Lou tells it as I see it. You won't put this down until you are done!
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