Reason: Why Liberals Will Win the Battle for America by Robert Reich (2004), NEW

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About this productProduct InformationFrom Robert B. Reich, passionate believer in American democracy, and public servant in both Democratic and Republican administrationsan urgent call to liberals to reclaim their political clout.Reasonis a guide to confronting and derailing what he sees as the mounting threat to American liberty, prosperity, and security posed by the radical conservativesRadcons, as he calls themwhose 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 downembracing "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 favorwhose defining gesture is to equate dissent with treasonand for reinstating the traditional American politics ofreason. 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 Radconsthere'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 againassuming the readiness to take actionAmerican liberals are on the verge of winning the battle for America.
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Additional Product FeaturesDewey Edition22Dewey Decimal320.51/3/0973Age LevelTradeCopyright Date2004AuthorRobert B. ReichNumber of Pages272 PagesLc Classification NumberJc574.2.U6r45 2004Reviews"We've gotReason,they've gotTreason. We've got Reich, they've got Coulter. We win. A brilliant and passionately argued book. Read it." -Al Franken "No deceptive fog of political hypocrisy can withstand Robert Reich's withering eye. He calls to a people's conscience and commitment. Everyone who cares about America's future should read this book." -David K. Shipler "Robert B. Reich has a gift for demonstrating the compelling rationality of his progressive politics with lucidity and panache.Reasonshould be required reading for all our political decision makers!" -Mario M. Cuomo "In his utterly lucid and engaging new book, Robert Reich advances the novel idea that reason could be applied to the way our country is run. And it just might work. God knows, we've spent the last four years trying the complete opposite." -Barbara Ehrenreich, "We've gotReason,they've gotTreason. We've got Reich, they've got Coulter. We win. A brilliant and passionately argued book. Read it." -Al Franken "No deceptive fog of political hypocrisy can withstand Robert Reich's withering eye. He calls to a people's conscience and commitment. Everyone who cares about America's future should read this book." -David K. Shipler "Robert B. Reich has a gift for demonstrating the compelling rationality of his progressive politics with lucidity and panache.Reasonshould be required reading for all our political decision makers!" -Mario M. Cuomo "In his utterly lucid and engaging new book, Robert Reich advances the novel idea that reason could be applied to the way our country is run. And it just might work. God knows, we've spent the last four years trying the complete opposite." -Barbara Ehrenreich From the Hardcover edition.Lccn2003-069518