Peril and Promise: A Commentary on America - Softcover

NBC News journalist Chancellor wrote this book in "anger and frustration" over the United States' continuing inability to manage its affairs. The country has gone to hell since Kennedy's assassination, he says, with the American people let down by one ineffective President and Congress after the other. He sees the United States losing its competitive edge in technology to Japan and West Germany, bankrupting itself with deficits, letting its infrastructure rot, and abusing its human resources by miseducating its youth and not retraining its work force. Instead of a kinder, gentler America, he wants a "tougher, smarter America," with more imaginative leadership, courageous economic management (including new taxes), and a national effort, similar to that for the moon program, to put the country right again. A refreshingly honest and thoughtful book. Highly recommended for public and academic libraries.
- Jeffrey R. Herold, Bucyrus P.L., Ohio
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.

NBC news commentator Chancellor blames Reagan and Congress for tripling the national debt and failing to address problems of housing, pollution and poverty; he advocates a national technology policy, increased taxes and the establishment of a youth service corps. PW called this an "opinionated, well-argued commentary" that "proposes a mixed bag of controversial reforms."
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.