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By Ron Suskind • 528 pages, $30
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ron Suskind investigates President Obama and his staff’s inability to handle the financial and economic crisis they inherited when Obama took office. Suskind writes of a President “in over his head” and “unable to manage his runaway staff” when it comes to economic issues.
Suskind discusses how Obama’s election chances were boosted because of the economic advisors he surrounded himself with when the crisis hit. They provided him with the right talking points. Yet, when Obama tried to solve the problems, his team of “Wall Street veterans” ignored the proposals he recommended and refused to take actions the president suggested.
Suskind blames not just Obama, but the entire U.S. political system, identifying the president as “just one player in a larger U.S. political system that has abandoned its values.”
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