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Bring Back America, Land That We Love: Viewpoint from Mid-America

by Bill Rentschler

234 pages; quality trade paperback (softcover); catalogue #04-1405; ISBN 1-4120-3577-5; US$23.00, C$26.25, EUR19.00, £13.50

Bring Back America, Land That We Love is a potent, persuasive and passionate book that boldly takes issues with the ''wrongheaded'' actions and policies and attitudes of the Bush administration.

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About the Book Bring Back America, Land That We Love is a potent, passionate book that boldly takes issue with the "wrongheaded actions and policies and attitudes of the Bush administration." Surprisingly it is written by Bill Rentschler, a longtime Republican leader, two-time U.S. Senate candidate, and party activist with national credentials.

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About the Author Bill Rentschler has a wide-ranging background as a two-time U.S. Senate candidate in Illinois; editor and publisher of community newpapers on Chicago's North Shore and in San Francisco; CEO of low-tech consumer product companies; political campaign strategist and leader statewide for Eisenhower, Nixon, Senators Charles Percy and Barry Goldwater and other prominent Republicans, and consultant to small and midsized private companies. Rentschler is a graduate of Princeton University with a B.A. in American History, where he was editor-in-chief of The Daily Princetonian. He returned from Chicago to his hometown of Hamilton, Ohio for a change of pace to write and teach after spending most of his adult life in Lake Forest, Illinois, as a journalist, CEO of private companies, and political/civic activist, and leader. He served 33 months in the U.S. Navy in World War II. His five adult children - Sarah, Peter, Mary Alley, Phoebe Cole and Hope Garbo - and his six grandchildren are scattered from sea to shining sea and the Gulf Coast. His most recent books are Goldwater: A Tribute to a 20th Century Political Icon (published by a subsidiary of McGraw-Hill), and The Paper Sword (Chicago Review Press).

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Excerpts

The time has come to bring back America.

In the near four years since the U.S. Supreme Court's 5-4 selection of a new president and the dawn of a new century, we have witnessed, often without grasping, the taking away of far too much of the American essence we have known and loved: the deepening divide by wealth and class; the withering of our warm relationships with longtime friends and allies around the globe, and our deep-dyed native instinct for caring and nurturing.

We were led falsely into a war that has sapped our resources and killed or maimed far too many of our young people. The draining of our treasury to conduct this war and its bungled aftermath has drastically reduced our ability to meet needs here at home, leaving millions of young and old, sick and homeless, poor and hungry, without the help and support they need so badly and deserve. We are feared rather than respected by many in the world, turned away from longtime allies.

It is surely time to bring back America.

What do I mean? What must we do? I shall offer here some of my deepest thoughts, and your readers will add good ideas of your own.

If I were to wake up tomorrow as the new leader of this land we love, I would do these two things on that very first day, and then proceed to get on with the job of bringing back America:

1. Announce a massive program to rebuild this nation's aged, crumbling infrastructure and expand it with new construction to meet today's needs. This initiative would create millions of demanding, well-paying jobs - as President Franklin D. Roosevelt's emergency Worlds Progress Administration (WPA) some 70 years ago created millions of decent jobs to stem the agony of the Great Depression. These new jobs at a time when unemployment is unacceptably high would rebuild confidence and restore the self-esteem of millions who are jobless today, or who are struggling to subsist and support their families on low-pay, fast food-type jobs.

2. Broadcast a positive, upbeat message worldwide to assure peoples everywhere that America, the only superpower, wants peace and goodwill and has no objective or desire to oppress and control and occupy their homelands.

These two initiatives would barely scratch the surface of what needs to be done to bring back America, but they would symbolize a welcome revision of attitude and intention. They would send a reassuring signal not only to our own citizens but to the entire civilized world - a message unlike what has been emanatinig from those in command today.

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