It's Up to Us: Ten Little Ways We Can Bring About Big Change

by John Kasich

Overview

A Little Book about Big Change

We all want the same things. We want to live a life of purpose and meaning. We want to leave a legacy for our children and grandchildren. We want to leave the world a better place. And yet we spend so much time wringing our hands over what’s wrong and not nearly enough time fixing those things within our control.

John Kasich has walked the corridors of power both in the politics, as a former leader of Congress, governor of Ohio, presidential candidate, and in the private sector, as an in-demand public speaker, best-selling author and a strategic advisor to businesses and large non-profits. Yet he’s seen that the most powerful movements have started from the bottom up. Rather than waiting on Washington, the solutions happen once we become leaders in our own lives and communities. The strength and resilience of our nation lies in each of us. That’s what this book is about.

In It’s Up to Us, Kasich shares the ten little ways we each can bring about big change. Taken together, they chart a path for each to follow as we look to live a life bigger than ourselves. Taken one-by-one, they can help to lift us from a place of outrage or complacency or helplessness and move us closer to our shared American dream.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781094003399
Publisher:	Hanover Square Press
Publication date:	10/15/2019
Edition description:	Unabridged
Product dimensions:	5.30(w) x 6.70(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

John Kasich is the former Governor of Ohio and a former US presidential candidate. As a US Congressman, he served for eighteen years on the Armed Services Committee and was Chairman of the House Budget Committee the last time the budget was balanced. He’s also had a successful career as an investment banker, as a host of Heartland with John Kasich on Fox News, as an author of four New York Times bestsellers and now as a senior political commentator on CNN. He and his family live in Westerville, Ohio.

Editorial Reviews

Uplifting… A be-nicer-to-each-other program that's worth considering.” —Kirkus Reviews

From the Publisher

2019-08-29
The former Ohio governor and Republican presidential candidate urges readers to get their own houses in order.

It's nice to be nice, and even if the man to whom Kasich lost the 2016 primary isn't very nice, he counsels "that we shouldn't be investing all of our emotions in that one office in the White House." Quoting the likes of the Who and the Kings of Leon, he reckons that it's up to us to change the world in smaller ways, telling uplifting stories "that remind us that everything we do accrues to the good—and, inversely, that everything we don't do lines up against us." That is, assuming that what we do is do good in the first place, such as the young woman who, in the absence of the person employed to do the job, donned a Chuck E. Cheese costume to save the day for a young man on the spectrum who would otherwise have been shattered by a missed hug. Kasich proffers a list of 10 principles, and, within the chapters devoted to them, he sometimes offers surprises, as when he defends Colin Kaepernick for taking a knee "as a way to call attention to racial justice and oppression." Many of Kasich's homilies are rather pointedly Christian, but by way of Mr. Rogers and not Franklin Graham: "We need to care for each other, love each other…acknowledge each other." We also must "get out of our silo" and start listening to each other's points of view, quizzing our sources of news in the same way that we would test the claims of a used-car salesman, said occupation being perhaps the only one held in less esteem than that of a politician. There's nothing objectionable about the author's 10-point program, though some farther to the right than he might not be happy with all of his examples.

A be-nicer-to-each-other program that's worth considering though unlikely to take shape in a time of growing division.

Kirkus Reviews