 |
|
| |
|
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
| 2020 Election: | Joe Biden's book | Cory Booker's book | Pete Buttigieg's book | Kamala Harris' book | Bernie Sanders' book | Donald Trump's book | 2018 Senate Debates |
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Book Reviews | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
(from Amazon.com) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
(click a book cover for a review or other books by or about the presidency from Amazon.com) |
from The Democrats, by Alexander Moore (number of quotes indicated): |
BOOK REVIEW by OnTheIssues.org:
This book was published in July 2019, when there were over an additional dozen contenders in the Democratic primary. For example, the primary debate in July 2019 had twenty participants. And to be published in July, the book had to be written several months earlier, so the author chose his biographical subjects well. We're excerpting this book after the 2020 election, so we focus on Biden and Harris -- in fact, we excerpted this book BECAUSE it included Biden and Harris!
Each mini-book opens with an epithet about the candidate:
-- Jesse Gordon, OnTheIssues editor, December 2020
| OnTheIssues.org excerpts: (click on issues for details) |
|
Corporations Cory Booker: 2012: as mayor, for two corporate HQs to move to Newark. Elizabeth Warren: 2012 OpEd: No greater threat to free enterprise than Warren. Elizabeth Warren: Too-big-for-trial. |
|
Crime Joe Biden: 1984: Passed Comprehensive Crime Control Act. Kamala Harris: Sister, Maya, authored "Activist's Guide to Police Reform". |
|
Drugs Joe Biden: 2003 sponsorship: RAVE Act to fight date rape drug. |
|
Education Bernie Sanders: Rejected from Harvard in 1950s due to Jewish quota. Elizabeth Warren: Childhood career goal was teacher. |
|
Government Reform Joe Biden: AdWatch 1972: Do you trust politicians? Let me change that. |
|
Immigration Joe Biden: 2007: We need a fair and workable immigration system. Kamala Harris: 2017: denounced Trump's refuges policy as "Muslim ban". |
|
Principles & Values Bernie Sanders: Three uncles perished in Holocaust in Poland in WWII. Bernie Sanders: Celebrated his bar mitzvah in 1954 in Brooklyn. Bernie Sanders: College member of Young People's Socialist League. Bernie Sanders: Ran for Governor of Vermont in 1972 and 1976. Cory Booker: 1998: won first race for Newark City Council. Elizabeth Warren: 2017: silenced in Senate; "Nevertheless, she persisted". Kamala Harris: Stepchildren call her "Momala" instead of "stepmother". |
|
Social Security Bernie Sanders: 2013: Expand benefits and create $2.8 trillion surplus. Bernie Sanders: 2000: Fought IBM pension cuts; workers regained $320M. |
|
Tax Reform Robert Reich: Expand EITC & raise bottom of SSI tax, as tax cut to poor. |
|
Technology Bernie Sanders: 2000s: Voted NO on Online Freedom of Speech Act. |
|
War & Peace Joe Biden: 1990s: Support Bosnian Muslims with NATO air strikes. |
|
Welfare & Poverty Bernie Sanders: 1963: College volunteer at Israeli kibbutz. Cory Booker: 2012: Increased affordable housing by 2,500 units. |
|
|
All material copyright 1999-2022 by Jesse Gordon and OnTheIssues.org Reprinting by permission only. |
E-mail: submit@OnTheIssues.org 
Send donations or submit quotations to: OnTheIssues.org 1770 Massachusetts Ave. #630 Cambridge, MA 02140 |
OnTheIssues.org
| |
| Most recent quotations | Archive of books & debates | Candidate Matching Quiz | |
Page last edited: May 23, 2021
