Book Review: It's Getting Ugly Out There -- Jack Cafferty

There are many who will recognize the name Jack Cafferty from his many years as a New York newsman. And many more will recognize him from his no-nonsense commentary and observations from "The Cafferty File" on CNN. In his first book, It's Getting Ugly Out There, Jack Cafferty lets you in on the man behind the man you see and hear on television, taking the reader back through his life, showing the reader incidents, experiences, and people that helped form Jack Cafferty. This serves a dual purpose: as an autobiography and as foundation and backdrop for why he thinks the United States is in a woeful state of affairs at present.

Cafferty lets the reader knows exactly where he stands -- for what is best for the United States. He pulls no punches, writes what he thinks, and goes to the heart of all the current problems facing the nation with an economy of words. In fact, the book reads just like a Jack Cafferty presentation on CNN. If you are a fan of Cafferty's curmudgeonly gruff, bare-knuckled approach, then It's Getting Ugly Out There will not only inform but entertain as well. If not, then you might want to find reading material elsewhere.