Currently Reading
Posted at 4:43 pm on Friday, June 20, 2008, in Reading, and tagged mccain, obama, two-percent, vonnegut.
The Two Percent Solution opened my eyes (a lot) on the topic of centrist-based solutions, however the issue of education reverberated most with me. I plan on posting more on that topic and others in the near future. A great book, with many tangible ideas and workable solutions. I only wish it weren’t written five years ago and now almost everyone has forgotten about it. One very interesting subplot however, addressed in the afterword, was that John McCain and Barack Obama were mentioned as the two leaders in Washington who would most likely move forward with the ideas in the book, and voila… I guess we’ll see.
On to the next book, version 3.0 of the best-selling Thomas Friedman’s The World is Flat…
Image: Amazon.com
It’s a long one, so see you in 2009. Or, maybe December, and the return of the month for Vonnegut.
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