Description: "The experts say that America's best days are behind us, that mediocre long-term economic growth is baked in the cake, and that politically, socially, and racially, the United States will continue to tear itself apart. But David Smick ... argues that the experts are wrong, ... [calling] for the great equalizer, a Main Street capitalism of mass small-business startups and bottom-up innovation, all unfolding on a level playing field. Introducing a fourteen-point plan of bipartisan reforms for unleashing America's creativity and confidence, his ... book describes a new climate of dynamism where every man and woman is a potential entrepreneur--especially those at the bottom rungs of the economic ladder"--
Review Quotes: "Smick's call for a fairer capitalism makes for bracing reading for students of the modern economy and polity."--Kirkus Reviews