Books By Michael LeGault
Outraged by the downward spiral of intellect and culture, Michael LeGault offers the flip side of Malcolm Gladwell's bestselling phenomenon, Blink, which theorized that our best decision-making is done on impulse, without factual knowledge or critical analysis. If bestselling books are advising us to not think, LeGault argues, it comes as no surprise that sharp, incisive reasoning has become a lost art in the daily life of people everywhere.
This complete summary of "Think!" by Michael R. LeGault, award-winning editor and writer, presents his argument that 'feel-good culture' and instantaneous results have contributed to a reduction in reasoning and critical thinking abilities, which might cause America to lose its competitiveness on the global landscape.
Chemical salesman Andy Dodge has a large heart but a short attention span. He is also impatient, prone to breaking rules and not highly motivated. Hoping to be “on the tee by noon every day,” and seeking freedom from an imperious boss, Andy purchases a manufacturing company, and learns he has unwittingly inherited a stockpile of deadbeat employees and a proprietary, nuclear technology that will endanger his and his wife’s lives as they become embroiled with terrorists in deadly game of nuclear brinkmanship.
It is safe to say that the prevailing mood of the United States is anger. This anger is directed at a government that has shed any pretense of acting in the interests of the American people. It is a government incapable of control or restraint, consumed by runaway spending. It is a government ruled not by the will of the majority of Americans but by lobbyists, lawyers, and a media-controlled agenda calling for greater amounts of progressive reform, regulation, and limits on individual freedom. Author Michael LeGault proposes all is not lost.