A Time To Fight: Reclaiming A Fair And Just America (2008) - Plot & Excerpts
Webb describes his background as a decorated Marine officer serving in Vietman, a novelist, and a former member of the Reagan Administration and U.S. Senate. He's an interesting guy with good political insights. While not a current candidate for higher office, his ideas and the solutions he offers for many of the difficult areas facing our Country might make him a viable candidate for a position in an Obama administration. If you love this country for its promise, for what it should be, for what it CAN be, Senator James Webb's book will make you cry at the loss of direction and focus, and fear for our future. This book is not the typical liberal jeremiad about America's sins and shortcomings, but the deeply-considered thoughts of a highly intelligent man with a strong sense of duty and love of country, about how the United States is betraying its promises to itself. He is a patriot of the best sort and he writes with sorrowful love of what's happening to our country. He proposes solutions. I don't like all of them but universal approval is not what's called for to appreciate this book. It's his sense of "rightness", a sense of honor, and fundamental decency that engages the reader.Webb is a decorated hero of the Viet Nam war, a boxer, an Undersecretary of Defense, Secretary of the Navy under President Reagan, (a Democrat by inclination, he became a Reagan Democrat in those years), a journalist, a writer, a student of history, and now a U.S. Senator, almost by default. He didn't want the job, but duty called. He likes to say that in the Senate he is unique in that he has a union card, two Purple Hearts, and three tattoos. A protean man, is what he is. I like him and I like his books - he's written nine of them.Kent Lundgren
What do You think about A Time To Fight: Reclaiming A Fair And Just America (2008)?
Had to read it, he is my senator. Liked it, like him.
—tucker
Hummmmmmmm. .. he may be a good VP choice
—bluecykle
