Description: Take It Back Our Party, Our Country, Our Future by James Carville (signed) and Paul Begala (signed) Easton Press First Edition Description: Hardback book published by Easton Press in 2006. Bound in top grade brown leather, cover and spine lettering and decorations in 22kt gold, hubbed spine, all page edges gilt, silk bookmark sewn in, satin moire endpapers, and acid neutral paper. Collector's Note, certificate of authenticity, and unused publisher supplied bookplate laid in (not attached). Signed by the authors on the limitation page without inscription or personalization. Book 1,182 of 1,650 copies issued by Easton Press as part of the Signed First Edition series. Synopsis: In this early salvo in the next national campaign, political strategists of the 1990s James Carville and Paul Begala apply their expertise to the great challenge of reinventing or reinvigorating the Democratic Party and stopping the Republican juggernaut that controls all three branches of government. Like football coaches in the team locker room at half-time, Carville and Begala provide motivation and a game plan: stop losing ground by following the lead of the White House in the war on terror; avoid the trap-issues such as abortion and gay rights; attack, instead, on quality-of-life issues that matter to the people, such as jobs, taxes, energy, and environment. Taking a page from the Rove handbook of political strategy, they identify issue by issue and region by region where Democrats have to score points, and they offer a well-researched book of Republican sins. According to Begala and Carville, the Democrats should stop being weenies and get out there and win. Publisher's Note: By being too timid and too weak, too hesitant and too confused, Democrats have allowed Republicans to run amok. Republicans today control everything: the White House, the Congress, the Supreme Court, the federal bureaucracy, the military, and the corporate special interests and their lobbyists. They operate powerful right-wing organizations, right-wing think tanks, and a conservative media that serves as an attack dog against Democrats. Republicans have used their absolute power to corrupt our democracy, degrade our military, weaken our health care system, diminish our stature in the world, damage our environment, reward the rich, hammer the poor, squeeze the middle class, bankrupt our Treasury, and indenture our children to foreign debt holders. In this important book, James Carville and Paul Begala show Democrats how they can take it back. They offer a clear-eyed critique of their party's failures and make specific, concrete recommendations on how Democrats can avoid losing elections on divisive issues such as abortion, gun control, gay rights, and moral values and start winning them on health care, political reform, energy, the environment, tax reform, and more. Carville and Begala say that liberal Democrats are right that too many establishment Democrats kowtow to corporate interests and shamefully supported George W. Bush's rush to war. And moderate Democrats are right to complain that too many Democrats are out of step with middle-class values, too removed from people of faith, too enthralled with intellectual and cultural elites. But the problem with the Democrats, Carville and Begala argue, is not ideological. It's anatomical. They lack a backbone. Take It Back is a spinal transplant for Democrats and an audacious battle plan for victory. Industry reviews: "After several long chapters...Carville and Bagala uncork a delightful chapter called 'The Meeting.' It is compiled, they assure us, from actual comments heard at actual Democratic strategy meetings. I want to believe them because the chapter is worth the price of the book." (03/26/2006) Condition: Binding - fine, like new. Dust Jacket - None, as issued. 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Book Title: Take It Back: Our Party, Our Country, Our Future
Narrative Type: Nonfiction
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Inscribed: No
Format: Hardcover
Features: 1st Edition, Certificates of Authenticity (COA) Included, Book 1,182 of 1,650 Copies, Fine Leather Binding, All Page Edges Gilt, Satin Ribbon Bookmark
Author: James Carville, Paul Begala
Personalized: No
Publication Year: 2006
Language: English
Signed: Yes
Signed By: James Carville, Paul Begala
Publisher: Easton Press
Genre: Politics & Society
