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Books by and about 2024 presidential candidates |
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Hillbilly Elegy,
by JD Vance (2017) |
Crippled America,
by Donald J. Trump (2015) |
Fire and Fury,
by Michael Wolff (2018) |
Trump Revealed,
by Michael Kranish and Marc Fisher (2016) |
The Making of Donald Trump,
by David Cay Johnston (2016) |
Promise Me, Dad ,
by Joe Biden (2017) |
The Book of Joe ,
by Jeff Wilser (2019; biography of Joe Biden) |
The Truths We Hold,
by Kamala Harris (2019) |
Smart on Crime,
by Kamala Harris (2010) |
Becoming,
by Michelle Obama (2018) |
Higher Loyalty,
by James Comey (2018) |
The Making of Donald Trump,
by David Cay Johnston (2017) |
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Book Reviews |
(from Amazon.com) |
(click a book cover for a review or other books by or about the presidency from Amazon.com)
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| OnTheIssues.org excerpts: (click on issues for details)
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Abortion
Bill de Blasio: Protect the right to choose.
Marty Walsh: More to be done for access to reproductive choices.
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Budget & Economy
Andrew Yang: Subsidize rent for resident artists in buildings.
Andrew Yang: Create the People's Bank of New York City.
Annise Parker: Close $205M budget gap by cuts & fee increases.
Antonio Villaraigosa: Cut city spending to balance budget; keep essentials.
Cory Booker: Performance-based budgeting with no tax increases.
Eric Adams: Save $1.5B by instituting two year hiring freeze.
Eric Adams: Use incentives to attract life science business to NYC.
Jerry Sanders: Cut city payroll; increase city agency efficiency.
Shaun Donovan: Invest in diversity, equity, inclusion; build neighborhoods.
Andrew Cuomo: Increase percentage enrolled in subsidized Fair Fares.
Andrew Cuomo: Workforce housing cannot be built by private sector alone.
Andrew Cuomo: Drive economic growth through infrastructure investment.
Curtis Sliwa: Incentivize rehabilitation of vacant rent controlled units.
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Civil Rights
Bill de Blasio: Co-sponsored the Gender Based Discrimination Protection law.
Bill de Blasio: Increase NYC usage of minority businesses from 3% to 10%.
Keisha Lance Bottoms: Improve police LGBTQ bias with cultural awareness training.
Marty Walsh: Care for our LGBTQ elders and support our LGBTQ youth.
Marty Walsh: Gender wage gap is still $10B per year in Boston.
Zohran Mamdani: Make New York an LGBTQIA+ sanctuary city.
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Corporations
Bill de Blasio: Preserve physical integrity of Industrial Business Zones.
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Crime
Andrew Yang: Appoint Police Commissioner with resume beyond NYPD.
Andrew Yang: Overhaul oversight of the NYPD.
Bill de Blasio: Stop-and-frisk disproportionately targets people of color.
Bill de Blasio: Invest in Shot Spotter technology: audio & video on streets.
Eric Adams: Beaten by police at 15, joined NYPD to reform from within.
Eric Adams: Reduce crime by having cops focus on police work.
Keisha Lance Bottoms: Move Atlanta away from "broken-window style" policing.
Marty Walsh: More community policing & diversions for non-violent crimes.
Shaun Donovan: Focus police resources on guns and serious crime.
Curtis Sliwa: Founded Guardian Angels in 1979 due to NYC's rising crime.
Curtis Sliwa: Add on 7,000 NYPD officers to restore law and order.
Andrew Cuomo: Crack down on nuisance and quality of life crimes.
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Drugs
Bill de Blasio: 50,000 arrests for marijuana possession unjust and wrong.
Eric Adams: Evaluate substance abuse clinics locations, spread them out.
Marty Walsh: Create an Office of Addiction Recovery Services.
Andrew Cuomo: Close open air drug markets.
Curtis Sliwa: More ADAs and investigators to combat drug-related crimes.
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Education
Andrew Yang: Extend Universal Pre-K to three-year-olds.
Antonio Villaraigosa: Charter schools and competition to improve education.
Bill de Blasio: Stop closures & develop a minimum of 100 community schools.
Bill de Blasio: Create an early warning system before school failures.
Chris Coleman: Close opportunity gap between "haves" & "have-nots".
Eric Adams: Expand summer school; keep buildings open year round.
Eric Adams: Make dyslexia screening universal.
Jerry Sanders: Implementing national standards in San Diego schools.
Julian Castro: SERVE SA: 1,500 new volunteers to read in grade schools.
Marty Walsh: Further raise public confidence in Boston Public Schools.
Mike Rawlings: Let families know they can depend on our public schools.
Mike Rawlings: Lobby for public school funding and initiatives.
Shaun Donovan: Focus on diversity and inclusion, invest in libraries.
Andrew Cuomo: Reduce class size, strengthen career and technical education.
Curtis Sliwa: End wasteful spending; expand vocational training.
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Energy & Oil
Andrew Yang: Bring a Green New Deal to NYCHA.
Antonio Villaraigosa: GREEN LA: reach Kyoto targets and use renewables.
Bill de Blasio: No to fracking; yes to wind, solar, & geothermal.
Eric Adams: Transition our power source to wind, away from natural gas.
Eric Garcetti: 20,000 green jobs for L.A.
Jerry Sanders: Sustainable energy efficiency via CleanTECH San Diego.
Marty Walsh: Reduce Boston's carbon emissions & mitigate climate change.
Shaun Donovan: Build a Green Economy, achieve zero waste.
Shaun Donovan: Get people out of cars and into other transportation.
Zohran Mamdani: Renovate 500 public schools to use renewable energy .
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Environment
Bill de Blasio: Increase bicycling to 6% of all NYC trips by 2020.
Bill de Blasio: SPARE pledge: Stop Polystyrene & Revitalize the Environment.
Chris Coleman: Commit to sustainable urban living & urban reforestation.
Chris Coleman: Build vibrant places like Capital City Bikeway.
Jerry Sanders: Ensure water reliability via desalination and purchasing.
Marty Walsh: More programs in parks and green spaces.
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Families & Children
Eric Adams: Increase Earned Income Tax Credit, provide childcare.
Andrew Cuomo: Meet the mental health needs of children and adolescents.
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Foreign Policy
Mike Bloomberg: Partner with World Bank: reduce traffic fatalities worldwide.
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Government Reform
Andrew Yang: Appoint small business czar to help in recovery efforts.
Andrew Yang: Give NYC control over city's transit system.
Bill de Blasio: Battle corrupting influence of corporate money in politics.
Bill de Blasio: Citizens United is a body blow to our democracy.
Cory Booker: Make it harder for wealthy to influence politicians.
Eric Adams: Have city agency data combined on single platform.
Eric Adams: Create schoolwide initiatives encouraging voter registration.
Shaun Donovan: Let non-citizens with green cards vote in city elections.
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Gun Control
Bill de Blasio: Wall Street for Change: campaign to support gun divestment.
Cory Booker: Insane to carry concealed loaded weapons cross-state.
Cory Booker: Coalition "Mayors Against Illegal Guns"; Keep state laws.
Eric Adams: Reinvent the anti-crime unit as an anti-gun unit.
Eric Garcetti: Track record of leadership against gunviolence.
Marty Walsh: Stopping illegal gun trafficking is a top priority.
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Health Care
Andrew Yang: Invest in the Mental Health Emergency Response Unit.
Bill de Blasio: Recruit & train nurses without need to go overseas.
Bill de Blasio: Enroll 600,000 more New Yorkers in ObamaCare by 2018.
Bill de Blasio: Train New Yorkers to fill 16,000 nursing positions.
Bill de Blasio: Wife runs ThriveNYC for mental health reform.
Chris Coleman: More access to appropriate treatments for mental health.
Eric Adams: After diabetes diagnosis, led proactive public health effort.
Eric Adams: Expand telehealth to reduce the number of hospital visits.
Rudy Giuliani: 96,000 NYC children insured via HealthStat initiative.
Shaun Donovan: Invest in health equity and access to Public Health.
Tommy Battle: Co-Leader of free programs educating the public on obesity.
Andrew Cuomo: Federal government not addressing public health challenges.
Curtis Sliwa: Expand mental health response teams for homeless.
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Homeland Security
Marty Walsh: Values the sacrifice of veterans & provide benefits.
Marty Walsh: Prioritize permanent housing for every homeless veteran.
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Immigration
Andrew Yang: All agencies must make language access a top priority.
Bill de Blasio: Greater outreach and assistance to immigrant entrepreneurs.
Bill de Blasio: Created privately-funded the DREAM fellowship.
Bill de Blasio: Universal City ID for services for undocumented immigrants.
Eric Adams: Allow lawful non-citizens right to vote in city elections.
Keisha Lance Bottoms: Offer pro bono assistance to immigrants facing deportation.
Marty Walsh: More services via New Bostonians Office.
Shaun Donovan: Protect immigrant communities, prioritize language access.
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Jobs
Bill de Blasio: Peg living wage to increases in the cost of living.
Bill de Blasio: Fight income inequality that creates Tale of Two Cities.
Chris Coleman: Diversity is a strength of our workforce.
Cory Booker: Held over 100 Job Fairs to employ local residents.
Eric Garcetti: Create one online portal for job seekers.
Keisha Lance Bottoms: Raise minimum wage to $15/hour; re-start Hire One.
Tommy Battle: Dedication to creating jobs has his city leading the state.
Zohran Mamdani: Raise the minimum wage to $30/hour by 2030.
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Principles & Values
Andrew Yang: Outdoor celebrations for the end of the pandemic.
Andrew Yang: Will regularly ride the subway, buses, and his bike as Mayor.
Eric Adams: Adopt pet-friendly housing policies.
Shaun Donovan: Volunteered in a homeless shelter during college.
Andrew Cuomo: Provide strong responses to antisemitic incidents in schools.
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Social Security
Shaun Donovan: Invest in health and wellbeing of people in later life.
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Tax Reform
Andrew Yang: Push NYS for a Vacancy Tax on empty storefronts.
Eric Adams: Two year "Recovery" tax for those making more than $5M.
Eric Adams: Weekly sales tax holiday to support local business.
Andrew Cuomo: Provide targeted tax relief to lower income, middle-class.
Zohran Mamdani: Raise taxes on corporations and millionaires.
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Technology
Bill de Blasio: Keep MTA fares affordable via payroll tax.
Bill de Blasio: Create public Wi-Fi hot zones & citywide broadband.
Eric Garcetti: Supports investment in public transportation.
Keisha Lance Bottoms: Develop transit-oriented development housing projects.
Marty Walsh: Modern transportation system means less traffic congestion.
Shaun Donovan: Bring high-speed broadband into every single NYC residence.
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Welfare & Poverty
Andrew Yang: Launch largest basic income program in the country.
Bill de Blasio: Recognize & legalize basement apartments & granny flats.
Bill de Blasio: 1990s: Regional director in Pres. Clinton's HUD.
Chris Coleman: City resources to prevent mortgage foreclosure.
Cory Booker: Force landlords to provide heat to residents.
Eric Adams: Create MyCity, a one-stop portal for services and benefits.
Eric Adams: Build affordable housing in wealthier areas.
Keisha Lance Bottoms: Focus on affordable housing via faith-based resources.
Keisha Lance Bottoms: Resource centers & smaller shelters to relieve homelessness.
Pete Buttigieg: 1000 Homes in 1000 Days: repair or demolish abandoned homes.
Shaun Donovan: Invest and preserve public housing, expand choice.
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