Upheaval: Winning Back the Country with Knowledge that Empowers, Ideas that Matter, and Solutions That Work

by Lou Dobbs

Bestselling author and host of Lou Dobbs Tonight offers his illuminating views on some of our nation’s most intractable problems.

In 2012, Lou Dobbs Tonight celebrated its one-year anniversary and a steadily growing viewership. Now, expanding on the “Chalk Talks” segment from his popular program, Dobbs gives his take on some of the country’s most pressing problems—including provocative topics no one is talking about—and what might be done to address them.  Covering our challenges in the areas of debt, the failure of our transportation infrastructure, the encroachment of the federal government, the power and size of public sector unions, the problems of business, big banks, big government, and more, Axis of Upheaval arms us with valuable information, as only Lou Dobbs can deliver with his frank, intelligent, and witty style.

Genres: Politics

289 pages, Kindle Edition

First published October 8, 2013

About the author

Lou Dobbs was an American television personality, author, and radio host. Dobbs joined the FOX Business Network in November of 2010. He is the host of Lou Dobbs Tonight, a primetime program featuring a breakdown of the day's top stories and how they impact the economy. He had previously anchored Lou Dobbs Tonight on CNN until November 2009. For his reporting, he won the Emmy, Peabody, and Cable ACE awards.

Reviews

[Dave Hoff · Rating 3 out of 5]

Lou easier to listen to on Fox New & Fox Bus. than reading his book. Much detail on the financial failings of present administration, and past Presidents not lily white in the solvency of the US financial health either.

[Vinny · Rating 1 out of 5]

What a cranky old man Mr. Dobbs is. Infrastructure funding, bitch moan; education funding, bitch moan; presidents and other leaders, bitch moan; China, bitch moan; ad nauseum. The only reason I listened to six out of the seven cd's is because the subtitle promised "solutions" to the problems that he complained about--imagine my disappointment when, at the very end of cd 5, his first solution comes along, and it's so simplistic and nonsensical that I had to listen to it three times to be sure that I understood him correctly. After moaning about the lack of infrastructure funding in this country, to suggest that the solution is to spend more money on creating MORE infrastructure so declining numbers of people could move to the suburbs and commute more easily to their jobs. Huh? What planet are you on that you think it's ok to add to our tax burden by extending the infrastructure liability beyond what we can already afford today? Have you had your head in the sand for the last 20 years? My country is doing much better than Mr. Dobbs portrays, thank you, it is not headed down the shithole--partly because those of us that are continuing to make it better don't listen to cranky old men like Mr. Dobbs.

[Leanne]

This book wasn't what I expected at all. I hesitate to give it stars, because I stopped reading. For one thing, it isn't good to drive angry on the Baltimore Beltway. I was expecting a book about finance, and it was all politics. Seeking financial enlightenment elsewhere.