America We Need to Talk is both a parody of relationship and self-help books and a serious analysis of the nation s political and economic dysfunction. Explaining that the most serious - and most broken - relationship is the one between Americans and their nation, the book explains how, no matter who becomes the next president, average Joes can channel their anger at our hobbled system into concrete actions that will fix democracy, rebuild the middle class and restore their stature in the world as a beacon of freedom and hope.