Lobby power

I am the author of “Obamanomics: How Bottom-Up Economic Prosperity Will Replace Trickle-Down Economics.” Judging by your review [“Cartooning Obama’s Economics,” by Rick Wartzman, July 16], I have written one of the worst books ever and if that is the case, I owe your readers an apology.

But it was not lost on me that your reviewer appeared very angry throughout the review, and for good reason. I found fault with the Bush policies of deregulation of business and Wall Street causing many of our problems today and tried to show they were a direct result of lobbying and campaign contributions on behalf of our biggest corporations. Name a problem in America today and I can tell you the lobbying force preventing a solution.

Your reviewer is the director of the Peter Drucker Institute (I know, I can’t believe Peter Drucker has an institute either), a big business advocate. Maybe you could have found someone less biased to review a book that argues that we will not solve our biggest national problems until big business gets out of the business of bribing our elected officials.

John R. Talbott

Bardstown, Ky.