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Title: Give Me a Break
Author: John Stossel
Narrator: John Stossel
Format: Abridged
Length: 5 hrs and 43 mins
Language: English
Release date: 09-29-05
Publisher: HarperAudio
Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 315 votes
Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs
Publisher's Summary:
But along the way, he noticed that there was something far more troublesome going on: While the networks screamed about the dangers of exploding BIC lighters and coffeepots, worse risks were ignored. And while reporters were teaming up with lawyers and legislators to stick it to big business, they seldom reported the ways the free market made life better.
In Give Me a Break, Stossel explains how ambitious bureaucrats, intellectually lazy reporters, and greedy lawyers make your life worse even as they claim to protect your interests. Taking on such sacred cows as the FDA, the War on Drugs, and scaremongering environmental activists, and backing up his trademark irreverence with careful reasoning and research, he shows how the problems that government tries and fails to fix can be solved better by the extraordinary power of the free market.
He traces his journey from cub reporter to 20/20 co-anchor, revealing his battles to get his ideas to the public, his struggle to overcome stuttering, and his eventual realization that, for years, much of his reporting missed the point.
Stossel concludes the book with a provocative blueprint for change: a simple plan in the spirit of the Founding Fathers to ensure that America remains a place "where free minds, and free markets, make good things happen."
Editorial Reviews:
By the mid-90s, journalist John Stossel was pulling in Emmy awards left and right. When the new millennium rolled around, however, and Stossel started focusing his energy not just on the hucksters in the consumer world but in the American government, he found his former coworkers and friends were much less supportive. Give Me a Break is Stossel's inspiring story of how a Midwestern boy with a stutter fought his way through the ranks of journalism to arrive as one of the more decorated journalists of his time. Performed by Stossel himself, with his trademark empathetic delivery, this audiobook is a hard-hitting look at the scammers and hucksters all around us and the man who's worked so hard to hold them accountable.
Critic Reviews:
"It's a powerful, well-argued, and immensely thought-provoking book, and with Stossel's visibility, not to mention the incendiary subject matter, it's sure to be a hot one, too." (Publishers Weekly)
