The Tyranny of Dead Ideas by Matt Miller

Here we go, another suggestion from the in crowd. I haven't had enough time to get this thing going. The Tyranny of Dead Ideas: Letting Go of the Old Ways of Thinking to Unleash a New Prosperity by Matt Miller is the latest recommendation from this blog to you. Recently this book has gotten a lot of coverage from media sites, but it deserves a second look and here you go, your shot at checking it out.

Here is a review of The Tyranny of Dead Ideas by Matt Miller from amazon.com:

"Matt Miller writes and thinks with amazing clarity about some of the most difficult problems this country is facing. The Tyranny of Dead Ideas offers the most plausible way to renovate our political and policy thinking to meet the challenges of the twenty-first century -- if we have the guts to go forward. This is must reading for the next president and for anyone who wants to be a creative citizen in a difficult time."—Joe Klein, political columnist, Time

"This book will make you the most valuable contributor to your next workplace discussion of politics or the economy. Matt Miller explains the history of ideas in a way that forces fresh insights about the future. I feel smarter already."—Chip Heath, author of Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die

"With crisp prose and compelling arguments, Matt Miller overturns orthodoxies left and right. Whatever your political persuasion, you will agree that The Tyranny of Dead Ideas is a tour de force -- the rare book that can reshape the national agenda."—Daniel H. Pink, author of A Whole New Mind

"To paraphrase Abraham Lincoln, our times are piled high with difficulty, and just as we must act anew we must think anew. Matt Miller is one of those few, invaluable voices who is able to reach beyond the truisms of yesterday to help us think anew about tomorrow. I warmly recommend his pathbreaking new book The Tyranny of Dead Ideas."—David Gergen, director of the Center for Public Leadership, Harvard University, and senior political analyst, CNN

"In The Tyranny of Dead Ideas, Matt Miller drives a bulldozer into the complacent conventional wisdoms of our society, including the desirability of free trade, of paternalistic corporations, and even of low taxes. You need not agree with every idea to be invigorated by Miller’s bold and original vision."—Philip K. Howard, author of The Death of Common Sense and Life Without Lawyers

These books are nothing new, they are books that present new ideas in old formats. I mean, a new way of thinking yet it is bound by paper and printed with ink? Yeah, interesting to say the least. The Tyranny of Dead Ideas by Matt Miller isn't going to change the world, but it is is slow burning introduction into a new way of thinking.



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