A Review of Robert Kuttner’s Obama’s Challenge: American’s Economic Crisis and the Power of a Transformative Presidency

In his new book, Robert Kuttner has provided a context for the current discussion on Barack Obama’s economic team, men like Timothy Geithner who will be leaving his post as head of the NY Federal Reserve to become Treasury Secretary. What will be their influence in determining the direction of the new Administration? Events have moved rapidly since he wrote the book (released this past labor day), but it is still timely and prescient.

Cho reviews former Marine Boudreau's passionate chronicle of conscience of a 17-year old desperate to enlist over the sixteen years that ultimately saw him through Iraq and then out. You can't read this read  Packing Inferno without comparing it to  O'Brien's The Things that They Carried  or Wood's What Was Asked of Us.