In his new book, Independents Day: Awakening the American Spirit, Lou Dobbs, anchor and managing editor of CNN’s Lou Dobbs Tonight, examines policy choices that he believes have eroded individual liberties, disenfranchised the middle class, reduced worker rights and pay, and led our nation into social and political division at home and into conflict around the world. Dobbs argues the folly of following domestic and foreign policies that have enriched the elites and burdened the rest of America. He posits a course for both prosperity and the survival of the American dream in a society that is desperate for new leadership and new ideas. Independents Day is an independent populist’s view of the critical issues that confront the presidential candidates and American voters as we approach the 2008 election.