America: Our Next Chapter; Tough Questions, Straight Answers

Hagel, Chuck, with Kaminsky, Peter

ISBN 10: 0061436968 / ISBN 13: 9780061436963

Published by Ecco [an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers], New York, 2008

About this Item

xi, [3], 306 pages. Index. Signed by author. Inscribed on fep. "Charles Timothy "Chuck" Hagel (born October 4, 1946) is an American politician who is the 24th United States Secretary of Defense. He served as a United States Senator from Nebraska from 1997 to 2009. A recipient of two Purple Hearts while an infantry squad leader in the Vietnam War, Hagel returned home to start careers in business and politics. He co-founded Vanguard Cellular and served as president of the McCarthy Group, an investment banking firm, and CEO of American Information Systems Inc. Hagel was first elected to the United States Senate in 1996. He was reelected in 2002, and retired in 2008. He took office on February 27, 2013 as his predecessor Leon Panetta stepped down. Hagel previously served as a professor at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, chairman of the Atlantic Council, and co-chairman of the President's Intelligence Advisory Board. Senator Chuck Hagel has long been admired by his colleagues on both sides of the Senate floor for his honesty, integrity, and common-sense approach to the challenges of our times. In America: Our Next Chapter, Hagel offers a hard-hitting examination of the current state of our nation and provides substantial, meaningful proposals that can guide America back onto the right path. Basing his suggestions on thorough research and careful thought, as well as on personal insight from his years as a political insider and decorated war hero, he discusses domestic issues including the health care crisis, immigration, and Social Security reform. He confronts foreign policy problems, including China's economy; control of U.S. debt; India's and Pakistan's nuclear capabilities; and Iran's aggressive stances. Hagel asks the tough questions and delivers straight answers to America's most pressing problems. This is a serious, honest, and, ultimately, optimistic look at our nation's future, from an American original. First edition [stated]. First printing [stated].

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: America: Our Next Chapter; Tough Questions, Straight Answers
• Publisher: Ecco [an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers], New York
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0061436968
• ISBN 13: 9780061436963
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very good
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
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  • Human Rights
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Synopsis

Senator Chuck Hagel has long been admired by his colleagues on both sides of the Senate floor for his honesty, integrity, and common-sense approach to the challenges of our times. The Los Angeles Times has praised his "bold positions on foreign policy and national security" and wondered, "What's not to like?" In America: Our Next Chapter, Nebraska-born Hagel offers a hard-hitting examination of the current state of our nation and provides substantial, meaningful proposals that can guide America back onto the right path.

In America: Our Next Chapter, Hagel speaks the truth as he sees it—in a direct and refreshingly unvarnished manner. Basing his suggestions on thorough research and careful thought, as well as on personal insight from his years as a political insider, successful businessman, and decorated war hero, he discusses domestic issues—including the health care crisis, immigration, and Social Security and Medicare reform—and global climate change. He confronts foreign policy problems that the current administration has bungled or ignored, including China's growing economy; control of U.S. debt; India's and Pakistan's nuclear capabilities; and Iran's aggressive political, ideological, and nuclear stances. He decries the pervasive disease of third world poverty, arguing convincingly that this is where the real fight against terrorism must begin. Always true to the beliefs instilled in his childhood on the prairie, he speaks passionately about service—to one's country and to one's fellow citizens—as the path toward a renewed America. And, of course, he gives a candid examination of the debacle that is the Iraq War.

A staunch Republican yet a "hero to liberals" (Time), Hagel asks the tough questions and delivers straight answers to America's most pressing problems. America: Our Next Chapter is a serious, honest, and, ultimately, optimistic look at our nation's future, from an American original.

About the Author

Chuck Hagel served two terms in the U.S. Senate and was sworn in as the 24th Secretary of Defense on February 27, 2013, becoming the first enlisted combat veteran to lead the Department of Defense. Hagel and his brother Tom served side by side in Vietnam in 1968 as infantry squad leaders with the U.S. Army's 9th Division. He earned many military decorations and honors, including two Purple Hearts. A fourth-generation Nebraskan, Secretary Hagel is a graduate of the University of Nebraska at Omaha. Hagel and his wife, Lilibet, have two children.