Former President Bill Clinton will publish a book on the U.S. economy in November, the Associated Press reports.
According to the AP, the book will be titled "Back to Work," and will be a "guide to the current economic slump, how it was caused and how to recover."
“I actually started thinking about it [the book] after the 2010 election, because I did 130 events and after every event people would come up to me and say, ‘I didn’t know this,’ ‘I didn’t know that,’” Clinton told the AP. “It was like the 21st-century version of the 1994 election, in which there was this enormously effective campaign against government, as if the government were responsible for all of this.”
Clinton said he began writing the book in the spring, and he hopes it reinforces President Barack Obama's economic proposals.
“I hope I can do things in this book that a president doesn’t have time to do and shouldn’t be doing,” Clinton said.
In a press release, Clinton's publisher, Alfred A. Knopf, said that the book "details how we can get out of the current economic crisis and lay a foundation for long-term prosperity."
[Clinton] offers specific recommendations on how we can put people back to work, increase bank lending and corporate investment, double our exports, restore our manufacturing base, and create new businesses. He supports President Obama’s emphasis on green technology, saying that change in the way we produce and consume energy is the strategy most likely to spark a fast growing economy and enhance our national security.
“There is no evidence that we can succeed in the twenty-first century with an antigovernment strategy,” Clinton writes in the book, according the release.
According to USA Today, Clinton's two previous books, his memoir "My Life" and "Giving: How Each of Us Can Change the World" were both bestsellers.
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