Broken But Unbowed
The Fight to Fix a Broken America
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4.7 • 3 Ratings
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Publisher Description
From Governor Greg Abbott—Texas governor and rising star in the Republican Party and one of the first prominent politicians to govern from a wheelchair—comes this deeply personal and inspiring life story and a plan to restore America to greatness in what Newt Gingrich calls a “bold and compelling” read.
Greg Abbott lost his ability to walk when a huge oak tree crashed down on his back, fracturing vertebrae into his spinal cord, leaving him forever paralyzed. At twenty-six years old, he felt that the future he had dreamed of was gone. But he soon realized that our lives are not defined by our challenges, but by how we respond to them. He went on to overcome his paralytic limitations to become the longest-serving attorney general in Texas history and now governor, all while in a wheelchair.
Greg Abbott waged a record number of legal challenges against the federal government that has come unhinged from the Constitution. He also led legal battles to defend the Second Amendment, the Tenth Amendment, and religious liberty. He personally appeared before the U.S. Supreme Court to defend the Ten Commandments monument on the Texas Capitol Grounds—and won.
Through these fights he realized that his personal story held an important parallel to America’s current challenges. The Constitution that forms the foundation of our country has been broken, but the people of this nation remain determined to achieve American greatness. Abbott explains that it is up to us to restore America to its rightful luster and power in the world, emerging triumphant from our stumbles.
In Broken but Unbowed, Governor Abbott describes firsthand what it was like to be on the frontlines of the historic fights that have refined the Constitution and the lessons he’s learned along the way, offering solutions that will bring us back a government that lives up to the American Dream.
Customer Reviews
Good politician book
Every politician who might run for president should probably write a book. “Write” probably most often means “have someone ghostwrite,” so I was glad to hear that Abbott tends to be pretty involved in work with his name on it, and to see him thank some people in the acknowledgments who may have been ghostwriters or ghost assistant writers. Too often, famous faces don’t share the spotlight with those who make them shine.
Abbott shares the spotlight throughout the book. Sure, the parts where he praises his wife and his former protégée Ted Cruz make Abbott look good too, but he also spills a lot of ink praising one of his staffers no one has heard of unless they’ve read about his staff.
He does the obligatory self promotion, but he has to try to get elected so that’s obligatory. Likewise for the overabundant Texana metaphors.
In the first half of the book, he tells about his early life and the accident that left him him a paraplegic. Very interesting, and very unusual. In the second half, he makes his case for a convention of states to amend the US Constitution. For this, he asks for reader’s help. The amendments he suggests are mostly to limit the power of the federal government. He has a standard conservative vision but an unusual background and an unusual strategy.
If you’re interested in Governor Abbott, read this. He makes good use of his almost obligatory pre-White House book writing.