Heart of the Nation

Black & White Version "This lively story of John Bridgeland's life inside and outside the George W. Bush White House, shaping the President's call upon all Americans to volunteer for citizen service in response to the attack on 9-11-2001, is well worth reading. It's a powerful tale of a promising part of our history that connects the first President Bush's Thousand Points-of-Light initiative and President Clinton's AmeriCorps with the second President Bush's USA Freedom Corps that Bridgeland led, with the quantum leap in volunteering and national service authorized in the bipartisan Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act of the first 100 days of the Obama Presidency. Bridgeland challenges readers to rediscover the idea of Public Happiness - the happiness that comes from participating actively in our self-government - which John Adams and Thomas Jefferson agreed they meant, above all, when they put Pursuit of Happiness, in capital letters, in the Declaration of Independence. Bridgeland brings that concept to life." -- Harris Wofford, former U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania, Chair of America's Promise, CEO of the Corporation for National and Community Service, and Special Assistant to President John F. Kennedy.