Our talented friend Peter Kiernan has written a book with provocative insight and analytical depth, Becoming China’s Bitch and Nine More Catastrophes We Must Avoid Right Now. Peter presents an unflinching manifesto in which he explores five factors that have sustained our national paralysis, then uncovers the ten challenges that pose the greatest threat to the future of America. Presented from a fresh yet informative Centrist perspective, these ten impending catastrophes include our semiconscious dependency on China, our lack of a centrally coordinated intelligence effort, our downward-spiraling health-care system, and the continually expanding problem of illegal immigration. In a logical, personal, and persuasive voice, Kiernan offers radical yet common-sense solutions to these challenges—solutions that every American must acknowledge and act upon before it’s too late. With provocative insight and analytical depth, Becoming China’s Bitch is the answer to securing our country’s immediate future and restoring our national soul.
Peter D. Kiernan, III is CEO of Kiernan Ventures, a venture firm and partner at Tributary Capital, and past Chairman of the Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation. He is a special advisor to the Treasurer of the State of Rhode Island on investment and financing matters. Peter chaired the Robin Hood Foundation in New York for nearly 5 years; and continues as Chair of the Finance Committee, co-chaired World Team Sports, which produced the Emmy-winning documentary “Vietnam Long Time Coming,” a bicycle trip of disabled veterans spanning 1200 miles through Vietnam, and “the Face of America,” 3000 bicyclists riding from Ground Zero to the Pentagon each bearing the name of someone lost in the WTC tragedy. At the University of Virginia, Kiernan serves on the College Foundation Board, and is Chairman of the Darden Board in 2011. Peter received his BA degree from Williams College in 1975 and his MBA from Darden in 1979.
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