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Rfk and the Renewal of Hope
Georgetown University Press
February 2003
On Sale: February 1, 2003
262 pages
ISBN: 0878409092
EAN: 9780878409099
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Non-Fiction Political
Peter Edelman has worked as an aide to Robert F. Kennedy, a
lawyer, a children's advocate, and a policymaker. He has
devoted his life to the cause of justice and to ending
inequality. But in 1996, while serving in the Clinton
administration as an expert on welfare policy and children,
he found himself in an untenable position. The president
signed a new welfare bill that ended a sixty-year federal
commitment to poor children, and as justification invoked
the words of RFK. For Edelman, Clinton's twisting of
Kennedy's vision was deeply cynical, so in a rare gesture
that sparked front-page coverage in the New York Times and
the Washington Post, he resigned from the administration.
The nation, he believed, had been harmed.
Drawing on Edelman's vast personal experience with the
issues and many of the key figures, SEARCHING FOR AMERICA'S
HEART shows that in an age of unprecedented prosperity,
Americans have in many respects forsaken their fellow
citizens. While we daily break economic records, we have
largely given up our vision of social and economic justice,
leaving behind a devastatingly large number of poor and
near-poor, many of them children. Edelman shines a bright
light on these forgotten Americans. Also, based in part on
a firsthand look at community efforts across the country,
he proposes a bold and practical program for addressing the
difficult issues of entrenched poverty. Edelman focuses on
novel ways of braiding together national and local civic
activism, reinvigorating our commitment to children, and
building hope in our most shattered communities.
Surveying the American landscape at the beginning a new
presidency and a new Congress, SEARCHING FOR AMERICA'S
HEART lays the foundation for a newly conceived politics, a
vision true to the legacy of Robert F. Kennedy.
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