America's New Future: 100 New Answers

What if you could sit down with some of the best, mostcreative minds in the land and ask them to take an inventory of America: Where will America be in the next 20 years? How can webest prepare for the future?Whom would you include? Gen. Colin Powell, Supreme CourtJustice Sandra Day O'Connor, Steve Forbes. Entrepreneurs like J.W. Marriott . .. big-league business consultants Tom Peters and Ken Blanchard . . .politicians such as John Glenn. . . and personalitieslike John Walsh, Quincy Jones, and Larry King?I've done just that. I've personally talked to thesepersonalities and many more, and in my 90,000-word book AMERICA'S NEW VISION: OurLeaders Point the Way I offer the reader a wonderfully rich stew ofopinions and ideas from a host of liberals and conservatives, writers andpoliticians, actors and astronauts, entrepreneurs and entertainers.The tragic events of last September 11 heighten the need forthis book. As American flags dot the landscape as never before and volunteersstrive selflessly to help in any way they can.Sometimes these leaders utter off-the-cuff observations,sometimes deep and even revolutionary thoughts. Their words together provide aroadmap for the reader trying to navigate through a maze of today'sunpredictability and unrest.Nowhere, under one book cover, haveso many of our distinguished leaders shared their wisdom on such a variety oftopics. Ineffect, they preordained the structure of this book when they told me what theysee as the biggest challenges to America in addition to terrorism: change,family, education, business, spirituality, violence, ethics,environment, health, re-awakening American spirit and so on. Clearly, as the outpouring of volunteers to Ground Zero hasshown, Americans want to do something. This book will inspire that kindof charge. Not everyone can go to New York or Washington or talk one-on-one with ournational figures, but they can read AMERICA'S NEW VISION and feel acloser connection to those same leaders. In short, America w