Reason: Why Liberals Will Win the Battle for America - Hardcover

Reich, Robert B.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1400042216 ISBN 13: 9781400042210

Verlag: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 2004

Inhaltsangabe

In a passionate call to revitalize America's traditional two-party system, the author of The Future of Success offers a forceful argument that the tenets of liberalism must become part of the national political agenda in order to battle the radical conservatism that poses a danger for America and the world and sets out a program for liberals to regain political power. 60,000 first printing.

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Robert B. Reich is University Professor at Brandeis University and Maurice B. Hexter Professor of Social and Economic Policy at Brandeis’s Heller Graduate School. He is also a visiting professor at the University of California at Berkeley. He served as secretary of labor under President Bill Clinton. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal. This is his tenth book. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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From Robert B. Reich, passionate believer in American democracy, and public servant in both Democratic and Republican administrations an urgent call to liberals to reclaim their political clout. Reason is a guide to confronting and derailing what he sees as the mounting threat to American liberty, prosperity, and security posed by the radical conservatives Radcons, as he calls them whose agenda has dominated public discourse and radically affected government action since the election, by a minority vote, of George W. Bush.

It is an agenda that turns American tradition upside down embracing preemptive war, disrupting essential alliances, reacting to terrorism by weakening our civil liberties, distorting our economy by endowing the rich with tax breaks while cutting social services, attempting to hunt down immorality in bedrooms rather than in boardrooms, where corporate malfeasance is still not legally prevented from chomping away at ordinary American earnings.

Reich offers a bold plan for defeating this politics of fear and favor whose defining gesture is to equate dissent with treason and for reinstating the traditional American politics of reason.

He calls on liberals to close ranks and maintain a permanent platform that can grow in power.

He provides clear answers to the barrage of accusations (of communism, of elitism, of anti-Americanism) with which Radcons have been pummeling liberals for at least two decades. He analyzes the propaganda savvy, the commitment, and the organization of the Radcons, and what liberals can learn from each.

He suggests how liberals can wrest the sole ownership of patriotism from the Radcons there s more to it than flag waving.

He calls on liberals to recognize their strengths. He wants them to remember their unfaltering protection of the central American invention: a society (ours was the first in history) that allows no aristocracy and hence belongs to all its citizens. And he wants liberals to recall how, twice in the last century, liberalism s dedicated reforms rescued American free enterprise from its own excesses: first from the robber barons in the early 1900s, then in the depression-devastated 1930s.

He demonstrates, with quotations from the most respected opinion polls, how far the radical conservative agenda is from representing the national will. And he tells why he believes that once again assuming the readiness to take action American liberals are on the verge of winning the battle for America.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Alfred a Knopf Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2004
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1400042216
• ISBN 13: 9781400042210
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 256
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