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ISBN
1439172412
EAN
9781439172414
Manufacturer
Simon & Schuster
Brand
Simon & Schuster
Binding
TP

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Simon & Schuster
ISBN-10
1439172412
ISBN-13
9781439172414
eBay Product ID (ePID)
117190345

Product Key Features

Book Title
Escape Artists : How Obama's Team Fumbled the Recovery
Number of Pages
368 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Economic History, General, American Government / General, Public Policy / Economic Policy
Publication Year
2012
Genre
Political Science, Business & Economics
Author
Noam Scheiber
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
16.5 Oz
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
6.1 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2011-045693
TitleLeading
The
Reviews
"Noam Scheiber offers a persuasive take on administration policymaking . . . [and] provides a template for future administrations-even a future Obama administration-to avoid the trap of thinking too narrowly and too politically in a crisis." -Matthew Yglesias, Slate, "What Scheiber offers is a judicious, nuanced and ultimately . . . persuasive chronicle of how contentious experts jockeyed to influence a young president stuck with an almost impossible set of chal­lenges. . . . Such sophisticated analysis of how the nation's most powerful officials think-however one regards the wisdom of that thinking-distinguishes Scheiber's book." -Paul M. Barrett, The New York Times Book Review, " The Escape Artists is a compelling narrative, deeply reported and beautifully written." -Jonathan Chait, New York, " The Escape Artists offers great insight into Obama's self-perception. . . . Scheiber's reporting has naturally sparked a great deal of second-guessing in Democratic circles, and his book will provide plenty of ammunition for the president's liberal critics . . . [and] to those critics on the right who believed that the White House never really earned their trust." -Reihan Salam, The Daily, " The Escape Artists reads like a Bob Woodward book-albeit better written and informed by a more sophisticated understanding of economics and policymaking." -Daniel Gross, Yahoo! Finance, "Scheiber writes with ease and authority about complicated financial matters . . . and proves particularly adept at showing how [the Obama economic team's] personalities, philosophies and previous experiences with one another shaped their interactions and the policy-making process." -Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times, "A Woodwardian account of infighting in the White House's economics team . . . Scheiber is a smart, clear-eyed reporter who frames his arguments elegantly." - Bloomberg Businessweek
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
330.973
Synopsis
The widely acclaimed and newsbreaking account of President Obama's campaign to rescue America from its recession: inside the meeting rooms, the inboxes, and the minds of the pedigreed propeller heads who guided America through a worldwide crisis. DEEP INTO THE OBAMA PRESIDENCY, THE UNEMPLOYMENT RATE WAS PAINFULLY HIGH, THE GAP BETWEEN RICH AND POOR HAD WIDENED, AND THE STIMULUS HAD NOT DONE ENOUGH TO BRING JOBS BACK. WHAT WENT WRONG? FACING THE WORST ECONOMY SINCE THE 1930S, President Obama hired a crack team of escape artists: financial wizards who had pulled off numerous whiteknuckle getaways during the Clinton era. But this time, they fell far short. The Escape Artists reveals why. Star White House journalist Noam Scheiber delivers a gripping narrative of the Obama presidency and the mistakes and missed opportunities that kept his pedigreed team from steering the economy in the right direction. With previously undisclosed internal documents and extensive, original reporting from the highest levels of the administration, Scheiber reveals how the very qualities that made these men and women escape artists in the 1990s ultimately failed them.
LC Classification Number
HC106.84.S34 2012

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