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Rebuild the Dream Hardcover – April 3, 2012

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In Rebuild the Dream, green economy pioneer Van Jones reflects on his journey from grassroots outsider to White House insider. For the first time, he shares intimate details of his time in government – and reveals why he chose to resign his post as a special advisor to the Obama White House.

Jones puts his hard-won lessons to good use, proposing a powerful game plan to restore hope, fix our democracy and renew the American Dream. The American Dream means different things to people, but the center of gravity is always the same: an ordinary person—who was not born with great wealth, but who is willing to work hard and play by the rules—should be able to find employment, live in a good community, make progress financially, retire with dignity, and give his or her children a better life. That dream is fading. On Main Street, too many people are working harder than ever – while falling further behind. They play by the rules, but cannot succeed. At the same time, other Americans, including the worst of Wall Street, break every rule, but cannot fail – because someone has already decided that they are “too big” to fail. The American Dream has been turned upside down and inside out. It is time to set things right. As the first Obama administration official to write a book about his experiences, Jones offers a unique perspective. In explaining why the 2008 “hope” bubble burst, he unveils the seven biggest mistakes made by the White House and its supporters. He explores the origin and fate of the movements that helped to elect President Obama, as well as those that have challenged and shaped his presidency. Along the way, Jones systematically reveals surprising parallels between Obama’s people-powered campaign, the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street. At this pivotal moment, Jones argues that we must make our economy respect the 99% and work for the 100%, not just the 1%. He proposes serious solutions that fit the scale of our problems. Rebuild the Dream sets forth bold ideas inspired by the progressive values that made the twentieth century the “American Century.” It shows how key public policies and investments can create millions of good, American jobs. America is still the best idea in the world. The American middle class is still her greatest invention. Rebuild the Dream is dedicated to the proposition that – with the right strategy– both can be preserved and strengthened for generations to come.
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Customers find the book insightful and informative. They appreciate the author's vision and strategies for engaging voters. The book provides a useful analysis of the social movements behind the rise of Obama. Readers praise the author's knowledge in many areas and appreciate the valuable summaries and graphics.

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  • Silence Dogood
    5.0 out of 5 stars Where did Obama's magic go? This guy knows
    Reviewed in the United States on April 3, 2012
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    Finally, a book that makes sense of what happened to the movement for hope and change! If you wonder where all the magic from Obama's campaign went, this book is for you.

    The book gives a great history of all the social movements that led up to Obama, and it really reminds you that the grassroots people were becoming very powerful even before he ran. I had almost forgotten about the anti Iraq War movement, Howard Dean, Al Gore and everything that laid the ground for Obama to run. The author does a good job of showiing how citizens' movements mattter in many ways.

    The middle of the book is my favorite part. It has very helpful charts to compare and contrast Obama, the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street. This shows some very original thinking, which I have not seen anywhere else.

    I will admit that I expected a nasty, bitter, tell-all kind of book, because I knew that he had worked for Obama and maybe left on bad terms. Or else, I expected it to just defend Obama and attack conservatives.

    Instead, he seems to be coming from a place of really trying to understand everything that has been happening. He explains new terms like "swarm theory" and "open source branding" very well, as they relate to politics. He has good and bad things to say about a broad variety of topics, including both the left and the right.

    It is kind of harsh when he calls the Tea Party "cheap patriots," but then he proves his point. I think the author is very brave for writing a book like this.

    I did not know what to expect, but reading this book made me feel sad that someone like him is not in the government. I hope Obama will put him back in the cabinet after he gets re-elected.
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  • Kindle Customer
    5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent analysis and suggestions for moving ahead
    Reviewed in the United States on April 13, 2012
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    I really wish Amazon would restrict reviews to people who actually bought the item in question -- it is obvious all the one star reviews are trolls who have not read a single page of Van's book, and are just trying to drag the average rating down.

    I am almost done reading this book, and find it very hard to put down. He is NOT an Obama apologist - he drills as hard into the Obama administration and Democratic party as he does into the conservative side of things. Maybe even harder, because he wants to ensure we figure out what did not work, as well as what does work.

    If I had to crunch it down to a sound bite, he thesis is that the way forward is via jobs, not cuts. Along the way he develops a very useful framework for analyzing three movements:

    * the successful Obama 2008 campaign
    * the dreary and muddled Obama administration (and he is brutally objective here)
    * the very successful Tea Party movement

    What he comes up with is something that is not tied to one party or the other, but finds resonance across all walks of life.

    This is a very informative book, and I really hope conservatives and libertarians will pause the hysterical hate machine and read it objectively because "there is not a liberal America and a conservative America -- there is the United States of America". E pluribus unum (out of many, one) -- that still is true!
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  • Stephen G
    4.0 out of 5 stars The call to span our political abyss
    Reviewed in the United States on September 2, 2012
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    By now we have loads of reviews about Van Jones' newest book, and not surprisingly they tend to line up neatly with the "side" of the polarized US political culture with which one stands. Since leaving the White House over the "distractions" caused by Glenn Beck's strange accusations, Jones has sought to constitute a movement to "rebuild the dream" by prioritizing policies and action to address current social and economic situation in which the US finds itself. Notable here is the agenda, established in Jones' previous book, to address our energy system. Reliant as it is on fossil fuels, multinational corporations, heavy capital investments, and foreign countries, Jones is well-known for advocating a more carbon-neutral system that requires public as well as private investment, relies on US ingenuity, involves greater decentralization, avoids offshoring of jobs, and seeks to offset longstanding US alliances with dictatorships in countries with oil. If you buy independent analyses of all this, the proposal is important if insufficient; but if you still buy the polarized discourse out there, then you either love this stuff because it's the answer to several major problems in the US, or you hate it because it threatens the US way of life, which like fossil fuels will of course last forever.

    Jones tries hard to navigate all this, arguing strenuously that polarization has to be overcome and policy proposals have to serve the 100%, not the 1% as conservatives are routinely accused of favoring, or some fragment of the other 99% as the fragments of the left favor. This book provides a useful analysis of the social movements behind the rise of Obama, and especially social movements of various stripes since the 2008 election. More could be said about all of this, but Jones provides one of the few analyses out there of both the Tea Party and Occupy/the 99%. Not surprisingly, Jones criticizes the Tea Party and its "cheap patriots" for offering proposals that in practice will not benefit many people and thus weaken the country. But to his credit, he recognizes that the Tea Party has an electoral agenda and has been very effective at advancing toward its goals insofar as its candidates have won elections and it has colonized the Republican party. On the other hand, Jones organizes a large portion of the book around the logic of Occupy, which suggests favoritism, but Jones also acknowledges that Occupy has explicitly disdained and avoided electoral politics, seeking deeper and more fundamental change. How that will play out, and whether it will have a chance if the Tea Party continues to get its candidates elected, remains to be seen.

    Jones also provides some useful analysis via Grid Theory to make the point that in politics, having stories that yank our emotions matter, in addition to clear policy proposals. As critics of this book have noted, this point is itself not new. Nonetheless, it is especially important in the current political moment, given the irrational hysterics on Fox News and right-wing blogs about the Obama Administration, as contrasted with the administration's dry and technical responses to the economic crisis. Similarly, the logical fallacies of the Tea Party haven't blunted the impacts of their effective use of info-bites, images and stories; interestingly, Occupy has sought to combine hard facts with their own turns of phrase, images and stories. Despite these similarities, Jones recognizes, the impact of the first is so far much more evident than that of the second.

    For me the most important passage in the book is on pp. 233-235. Here, Jones makes the case for why Occupy/the 99% needs to define itself and practice as "the 99% for the 100%". Jones draws crucial distinctions here. It is not wealth per se that is the problem, it is cheating to get it and pretending that the system is a meritocracy. A market system is vital, but becomes dangerous when it is rigged and yet our elected representatives pretend it is not. And the 1% per se is not the problem, but rather a system that protects the 1% when they risk and lose and expect others to bail them out. These points build bridges among elements of ostensibly adversarial politics by bringing together traditional conservative values such as personal accountability with liberal values like equal treatment. If somebody can take that ball and carry it, then there is hope. Jones includes not a little self-promotion in this book, but he also makes clear that this is not his ball to carry; it will require a movement, and that sentiment is consistent with the logic of advocating for the 100%.
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