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A powerful wake-up call to all Americans

With only 6 percent of the world’s population, how long will the United States remain a global superpower? The answer, David Boren tells us in A Letter to America, depends on asking ourselves tough questions. A powerful wake-up call to Americans, A Letter to America, forces us to take a bold, objective look at ourselves.

In A Letter to America, Boren explains with unsparing clarity why the country is at a crossroads and why decisive action is urgently needed and offers us an ambitious, hopeful plan.

What the country needs, Boren asserts, are major reforms to restore the ability of our political system to act responsibly. By relying on our shared values, we can replace cynicism with hope and strengthen our determination to build a better future. We must fashion a post–Cold War foreign policy that fits twenty-first-century realities—including multiple contending superpowers. We must adopt campaign finance reform that curbs the influence of special interests and restores political power to the voters. Universal health care coverage, budget deficit reduction, affordable higher education, and a more progressive tax structure will strengthen the middle class.

Boren also describes how we can renew our emphasis on quality primary and secondary education, revitalize our spirit of community, and promote volunteerism. He urges the teaching of more American history and government, for without educated citizens our system cannot function and our rights will not be preserved. Unless we understand how we became great, we will not remain great.

The plan Boren puts forward is optimistic and challenges Americans to look into the future, decide what we want to be and where we want to go, and then implement the policies and actions we need to take us there.

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"Wise, timely, and constructive views from one of the leading public servants and educators of our time. This book should be read, re-read, and passed along to all who care about our country and its future."—David McCullough, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of John Adams

"Here now is the letter to us all, the one we have been waiting for—and sorely need. It is a message of alarm but also of hope. Our problems as Americans are huge but most are of our own making and thus capable of our own fixing. I say, Amen, David Boren."—Jim Lehrer, Executive Editor, The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer

"David Boren's unique insights present us with a summons to action. Not all that he suggests will be palatable, but all should be debated. Above all, his letter calls us back from the precipice of narrow self-interest to the solid ground of the public good."—Ruth Simmons, President of Brown University

"A powerful, compelling analysis of the major crises facing the United States today. Treating each crisis in a nonpartisan, compassionate way, and believing that 'we Americans are natural problem solvers,' Boren suggests excellent solutions for the well-being of our own and future generations of Americans."—Howard R. Lamar, former President of Yale University

"David Boren defines our nation's challenges with clarity, common sense, and courage. Americans concerned about the country their children and grandchildren will find Boren's diagnosis and prescriptions refreshing, compelling—and inspiring."—Sam Nunn, U.S. Senator from Georgia, 1972–1997

About the Author

A Rhodes Scholar, David Boren is President of the University of Oklahoma. A former governor of Oklahoma, he served as U.S. Senator from Oklahoma from 1979 to 1994 and chaired the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence from 1987 to 1993.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ University of Oklahoma Press; First Edition (March 15, 2008)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 120 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0806139447
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0806139449
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 8 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5 x 0.5 x 7.5 inches
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Rhodes Scholar David Boren, currently President of the University of Oklahoma, was the longest-serving chairman of the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee.

Throughout his three-decade career in elective politics as Governor and three-term U.S. Senator, Boren was known as a bipartisan reformer, championing efforts to make government more accountable to the American people. During his tenure in Washington, Boren crusaded for congressional campaign finance reform and stronger congressional oversight of secret intelligence programs. He sponsored legislation to declassify thousands of documents pertaining to the history of the CIA. Boren chaired the special 1992–93 Joint Committee on the Organization of Congress, which proposed making Congress more efficient and responsive by streamlining congressional bureaucracy, reducing staff sizes, and reforming procedures to end legislative gridlock. He authored the National Security Education Act in 1992 to provide scholarships for studying abroad and learning additional languages. Since the program’s inception, more than 3,500 students have been given the opportunity to study abroad as Boren Scholars. The National Security Education Program is the largest international studies program created since adoption of the Fulbright scholarships.

A 1963 graduate of Yale University, Boren received his law degree from the University of Oklahoma College of Law in 1968. Prior to becoming President of the University of Oklahoma, he served for ten years as a Trustee of Yale. When Boren left the U.S. Senate in 1994 to become President of the University of Oklahoma, he had an approval rating of 9l percent after being reelected with 83 percent of the vote in 1990, the highest percentage in the nation in a U.S. Senate contest in that election year.

Under Boren’s leadership, the University of Oklahoma has emerged as a pacesetter in American public higher education, ranking first in the nation among public universities in the number of National Merit Scholars per capita. Total endowment has grown five-fold to more than $1 billion during the thirteen years of his presidency. A teacher at heart, Boren is in the classroom every semester leading a first-year course in political science.

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  • Al Jay
    5.0 out of 5 stars A letter from a great American
    Reviewed in the United States on April 29, 2008
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    In 1974 I began hearing about a young Oklahoma state congressman named David Boren who was considering a run for the state governor's office. At the time I was traveling for a major drug company and part of my territory was his hometown of Seminole, Oklahoma. So, on my next trip to Seminole I stopped by his office to try to get a sense of the Rhodes Scholar, attorney, and now hopeful candidate and to determine if I wanted to support his candidacy. Unfortunately, he was in Oklahoma City that day serving his district at the state capital. I did, however, get to visit with his law partner with whom I left my business card.
    I stayed in Durant and Shawnee the next two nights, returning home to Tulsa on a Thursday. In the stack of mail that my wife had placed on my desk was a two page, hand written letter from David Boren. He talked little of himself but instead thanked and encouraged me for being interested in our state's future. I joined "The Boren Broom Brigade" that day. I have never regretted that commitment. He was an outstanding governor, an exemplary three term U.S. Senator, and is unquestionably the most effective university president ever to serve O.U.
    A few months ago he and former Georgia Senator, Sam Nunn hosted a meeting of some of America's best and brightest leaders and statesmen. They organized the meeting out of a deep concern for the nation and the direction that our political system has taken in recent years. This book by Boren, A LETTER TO AMERICA, is a wake up call to each of us and should be required reading in each of our nation's high schools. His text says out loud what so many of us have been quietly worrying about; i.e., that our country is sliding into its final days of greatness. His command of the nation's history is inspiring, his experience in the halls of the U.S. Capital and his legendary ability to reason, communicate, and negotiate make the message of this book both alarming and hopeful. One cannot come away from this literary flashing red light without a fresh understanding of how partison politics and greed have thrown a wrench into the machinery of our Federal system. The book is not only an urgent warning to America but is also a guide to the way back to the nation that we all grew up believing in - the America that is still within our reach to save.
    Jim Hess
    Bartlesville, Oklahoma
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  • Theodore A. Rushton
    5.0 out of 5 stars When do we get solutions?
    Reviewed in the United States on May 20, 2011
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    In the introduction, Boren states, "One of our greatest shortcomings as Americans is our failure to be intellectually curious about what is happening to us as a people."

    This book is exemplifies such lack of curiosity. Boren lucidly outlines current and growing problems, but he doesn't offer solutions other than to "Be Nice" or very briefly "increased taxation of luxury items", adoption of "cost-saving preventive medical actions" and perhaps a few revisions to Social Security, Medicare and deficit financing.

    Granted, in February 2008 he could hardly foresee the collapse of the economy ...

    He does have one very intriguing sentence just seven pages from the end, "Historian Gordon Wood argues that a unique combination of factors produced a first generation of leaders of such remarkable wisdom, foresight and civility that they will never be surpassed."

    He's describing Canada. That "unique combination of factors" he refers to was British rule until 1776. If America has not produced "leaders of such remarkable wisdom, foresight and civility" since then, perhaps something is basically wrong with the founding ideology. Yet, apart from a good health care and maple syrup -- does any American really want Canada?

    Some of his major complaints center on the cost of elections. Okay, elections are national discussions of issues; is there anything in the First Amendment that says freedom of speech should be limited or controlled when elections are involved?

    It's true one cannot shout "Fire!" in a crowded theatre; but is there a reason to ban someone from shouting "Vote for Boren!" any time they please? The result may be a "fatal" stampede in both situations; but who will cite fatalities in the second case?

    Indeed, these are interesting times. It's basic enough to describe just how interesting these times have become, and to debate whether or not tomorrow will be even more interesting ... but isn't it time someone offered ideological solutions instead of partisan blather?
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  • Cody R. Marks
    5.0 out of 5 stars There is Still Time
    Reviewed in the United States on July 3, 2018
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    This book does well to describe some of the larger problems in the United States today and what can be done to resolve them. Having read this in 2018, it is crazy to think about how these trends have continued or have gotten worse, with moderates getting pushed out of both parties and those who don't toe the line not having much of a chance. Boren provides a list of solutions as to what he thinks can help solve some of the nation's problems. As a country, we need to do more to teach children and youth about the foundations of the nation and in my opinion, there should be a class where they discuss this and where they read some of the original documents as these are key in helping to gain understanding of some of the documents that explain our governing system along with highlighting key historical decisions. Other issues he highlights include partisanship, the electoral college, the power of Congress, campaign spending, among other things. While one may not agree with all of Mr. Boren's solutions/proposals, they are still worth considering in light of events in the country over the past twenty years. This book makes for a remarkable read that highlights the spirit of America, what it has done to overcome adversity, and what can still do to allow for the country to be a leader in the world of the twenty-first century.
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