250 Ways to Make America Better - Softcover

A provocative collection of brief essays--by American writers, musicians, actors, academics, philosophers, politicians, educators, and humorists--representing all sides of the political spectrum, offers suggestions on how to improve America. Original. 75,000 first printing.

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from the White House to your own house, the 250 best insights on improving our country--from the editors of George magazine
250 Ways to Make America Better is a selection of essays, cartoons, thoughts, and poems from an all-star cast of Americans. From Ice T to Isaac Stern, Joan Rivers to Rob Reiner, Stephen Ambrose to Mo Vaughn, 250 writers, humorists, entertainers, educators, executives, and, yes, even politicians all say how they would make America better. Radio commentator David Brudnoy maintains that politicians should be forced to be celibate for their entire terms of office; rap titan Sean "Puffy" Combs stresses the importance of the presence of God in American life; cartoonist Roz Chast draws a triptych suggesting we should blow up all the shopping malls, send a certain outspoken conservative into outer space, and bring back chocolate-flavored Life Savers. The political voices in the book run the gamut from William F. Buc