Reset: How This Crisis Can Restore Our Values and Renew America
by Kurt Anderson
(Random House, 2009)
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From Tom Brokaw’s Forward:
“What has encouraged me greatly as I travel around the country, from the shaken baronies of Wall Street to the regional centers of commerce and back roads of rural America, is the common acknowledgment not just that a course correction is overdue, but that this is an exciting opportunity to construct a new model that will serve us better for the challenges ahead.”
Anderson’s long essay or short book includes perceptive interpretations about our evolving lifestyles, proposals about readdressing the meaning of the world around us and how we analyze fitting in to it. Anderson concludes that “the crisis should therefore prompt Americans now to call upon the old-fashioned, self-reliant, enthusiastic, common-sense part of themselves–that is, their true amateur spirit.”
While reading Reset, I couldn’t help but focus on Lemuria. With the downturn, we’ve addressed the crisis by tightening up and improving the bookstore. With a good and rightful motivated staff, we’ve worked hard to survive. We’ve corrected internal flaws, eliminated selfish personal malaise, and gotten more good books on the shelves (less crummy titles or just plain hoax books). We hope during this crisis we’ve given Jackson a better bookstore. We want to be ready to grow as the waters become smooth.
Reading Reset will prompt you to look at yourself, encouraging you to take the bull by the horns, turning those visions into actions using a renewed cultural perspective.
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