In this remarkably candid personal account of the making and unmaking of education, drug control, and cultural policy, William J. Bennett reveals what he saw and what he learned and the people he came across and was crossed by-during his controversial years as Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, Secretary of Education, and Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy. In the straight-forward style that has become his trademark, he tells what's right and what's wrong with American education; discusses the heroes, villains, and shirkers in the war against drugs; analyzes why race relations are bad and how we can improve them, why our social and political institutions have deteriorated, and how to combat "politically correct" thinking on our campuses; and offers his assessment of the failures of contemporary liberalism.

William J Bennett : served as Director of the Office of National Drug control Policy under President Bush and as Secretary of Education and Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities under President Reagan. He is Co-director of Empower America, and a Distinguished Fellow in Cultural Policy Studies at the Heritage Foundation.