America, We Need To Talk: A Self Help Book for the Nation

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America We Need to Talk is both a parody of relationship and self-help books and a serious analysis of the nation s political and economic dysfunction. Explaining that the most serious - and most broken - relationship is the one between Americans and their nation, the book explains how, no matter who becomes the next president, average Joes can channel their anger at our hobbled system into concrete actions that will fix democracy, rebuild the middle class and restore their stature in the world as a beacon of freedom and hope.

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It is both important and entertaining. We need bothI've never seen the political world so sad, so foolish. So dangerous. This book will certainly help. Toni Morrison

Joel Berg has done it again with another book to challenge policy makers and Americans to think boldly and creatively about how to solve some of the biggest issues facing our nation. Joel wont rest until we end hunger and poverty once and for all. And, quite frankly, we need more people like him. Congressman Jim McGovern (D-MA)

In AMERCA WE NEED TO TALK: A SELF HELP BOOK FOR THE NATION, Joel Berg combines wit, dogged research, and insight based on decades of on-the-ground experience to drill down deeply on issues vital to all Americans. His call for more civility in our modern public discourse, as well as his proposals for wholesale social change based on centrist policies and mainstream values, deserve particular attention. While we may not concur on all his critiques and solutions, we surely should agree that the issues he raises demand wide-spread consideration and debate. Dan Glickman, former U.S. Secretary of Agriculture and U.S. Congressman

A timely take-no-prisoners argument for sane and humane policies by the master truth-teller, Joel Berg. Been wondering how we canreallymake America great again Read this book. Tom Colicchio, chef, TV judge, activist

Fearless and compulsively readable, America, We Need to Talk will make you laugh, think and snort coffee through your nose. Joel Berg is that irascible uncle who speaks the unmentionable truth at family dinners. You may squirm, but secretly youre glad hes there. Lori Silverbush filmmaker, activist

Author Bio

JOEL BERG is the author of All You Can Eat- How Hungry Is America (Seven Stories Press, 2008), the definitive book for decades on American hunger. An internationally recognized leader and media spokesman in the fields of hunger, poverty, food systems, and US politics, Joel currently leads Hunger Free America, formerly known as the New York City Coalition Against Hunger. Joining the organization in 2001, Joel has built the nonprofit into a respected national champion for Americans struggling to obtain nutritious food and escape poverty. Greg Kaufman wrote for the Nation that, under Joel's leadership, the organization has grown "into one of the leading direct service and advocacy organizations on hunger and poverty in the nation." Prior to his work Hunger Free America, Joel served for eight years in the Clinton administration in senior executive service positions at USDA. He is the past winner of the US Secretary of Agriculture's Honor Award for Superior Service (one of the department's highest honors) and the Congressional Hunger Center's Mickey Leland National Hunger Fighter Award. A native of Rockland County NY, and a graduate of Columbia University, Joel now resides in Brooklyn.