" This book is a collective effort by my brother and myself. The book is very topical as many of the issues we write about are part of the current political debate. It is unfortunite that all of them are not being addressed. The book is a look at the current state of this country. We address issues concerning the current political process, the current economic problems, and the current dissatisfaction with our elected representatives. Public opinion of Congress is at an all time low. We address these issues and offer some solutions that will restore our nation to the republic our Founding Fathers hoped to establish. Using their words we examine where we have fallen from the path they layed out for us and why. The book strongly suggests that we have to change the way we do things in Washington and it provides specific things we should all do at the end of each chapter. The book looks at the two political parties and clearly shows we can no longer proceed with either one of them running our government. From one point of view the book is very conservative because it insists that we have to go back to the government envisioned in the Constitution. From another point of view it is quite liberal because it shows why we should discuss and add some additional amendments to the Constitution. It was the hope of the authors to instill an idea of the way things should be and to give suggestions on ways to make them work. Idealogically, the book is profoundly American and the only values espoused are those of Middle Class Americans. Our hoped for readers are the disenfranchised Middle Class of America."