Rebuilding Our Democracy: A 96-Year-Old Veteran’s Plan to Revitalize the Country, With the Numbers to Back It

Americans haven't lost interest in their country. They've lost faith that anyone in charge is on their side.In Rebuilding Our Democracy, 96-year-old Lawrence A. Yaggi Jr., a retired electrical engineer, chief financial officer, and Navy veteran of the Korean War, does something that almost no political book bothers to do: he treats a broken government the way he spent a lifetime treating broken systems. Find the defect. Learn why it failed. Fix it.This is not another round of outrage. It's a plan, written the way an engineer writes a specification. Every proposal name a specific problem, a credible solution, a believable timeline, and a measurable result you can check for yourself. It leads with the one thing the whole country is asking for at once, affordability and the cost of living, and it weighs the promises of the moment against the public record, with no thumb on the scale.Drawing on nearly a century of watching America, Yaggi maps where each party has delivered and where it has failed since 1980, listens to the people who are getting it right, and builds toward a single idea in short supply: restoration, not revenge.This is not a book about who to blame. It's a work order for repairing the country, with the numbers to back every line, from a man who still refuses to walk past a broken thing. Read more