The Right Answer
How We Can Unify Our Divided Nation
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4.0 • 2 Ratings
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Publisher Description
The first declared candidate for president in 2020 delivers a passionate call for bipartisan action, entrepreneurial innovation, and a renewed commitment to the American idea
The son of a union electrician and grandson of an immigrant, John K. Delaney grew up believing that anything was possible in America. Before he was fifty, he founded, built and then sold two companies worth billions of dollars. Driven by a deep desire to serve, in 2012 he stepped away from his businesses, ran for Congress, and won. Now he has a new mission: unifying our terribly divided nation and guiding it to a brighter future.
As a boy, Delaney learned the importance of working hard, telling the truth and embracing compromise. As an entrepreneur, he succeeded because he understood the need to ensure opportunity for all, focus on the future, and think creatively about problem-solving. In these pages, he illustrates the potency of these principles with vivid stories from his childhood, his career in business, his family, and his new life as a politician. He also writes candidly about the often frustrating experience of working on Capitol Hill, where many of his colleagues care more about scoring political points than improving the lives of their fellow Americans. With a clear eye and an open heart, he explains that only by seeing both sides of anargument and releasing our inner entrepreneur can we get back to constructive, enlightened governing.
Seventy years ago, John F. Kennedy appealed to our best instincts when he said, “Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer but the right answer.” In this inspiring book, John K. Delaney asks all of us to cast aside destructive, partisan thinking and join him in an urgent endeavor: working together to forge a new era of American greatness.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Maryland Democratic Congressman Delaney's summary of the reasons why he should become the next president of the United States is a stereotypical volume, containing the usual blend of biography (including shoutouts to his hardworking immigrant ancestors and his beloved wife), professional resume, and policy prescriptions. Although many voters would probably be sympathetic to Delaney's overarching theme that progress on tough issues requires bipartisanship, he provides little reason to believe that the current atmosphere of hyper-partisanship could change soon and minimizes the split on major issues it's not accurate, for example, to say only that "some politicians continue to argue over whether to believe the overwhelming scientific consensus on" climate change when the Trump administration is avowedly skeptical on the topic and its EPA has removed resources for combating global warming from its website. Uncontroversial generalizations for example, that the U.S. should remove red tape that is business-unfriendly but still keep meaningful regulation and stock campaign phrases ("Let's work together toward a common goal for the common good") overwhelm Delaney's impressive track record as a businessman and his refreshing approach to reaching across the aisle, which included one-on-one sit-downs with many colleagues to advocate for legislation. The result is a bland mix of largely uncontroversial points that goes out of its way, sometimes to the point of inaccuracy, to avoid offending anyone.
