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How America's Progressives Can (Once Again) Save Our Economy, Our Climate, and Our Country
Crown
August 2008
On Sale: August 19, 2008
256 pages
ISBN: 0307382559
EAN: 9780307382559
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Political
AMERICA IS FACING UNPRECEDENTED CHAL LENGES—new threats to
our economic well-being, our environment, and our security.
The American people are looking for real answers; the next
president must mobilize our government and our citizens in
ways that no president has done since FDR. America needs
the power of progress . . . once again. At the turn of the twentieth century, the American Dream
was beginning to dim in a nation riven by growing
inequalities in wealth and run by a powerful network of
privileged industrialists and their political allies. But
that era also gave birth to a renaissance in American
political thought that forever changed our nation. At a time when conservative ideology served as an excuse
for the accumulation of wealth and privilege, the original
Progressive movement created a new political order built on
America’s basic principles—justice and equality for all,
economic opportunity, and a commitment to the common good. The lives of all Americans have been profoundly improved by
the achievements of progressive reformers, from the eight-
hour workday and voting rights to our victory in the Cold
War and the economic gains middle-class Americans enjoyed
under our most recent progressive president, Bill Clinton.
Today’s challenges demand a second great Progressive era.
America needs an economy in which workers at every income
level share in our riches; a climate policy that stops
global warming and ends our addiction to fossil fuels; and
American leadership in the global fight against terrorism,
nuclear proliferation, and poverty. In The Power of Progress, John Podesta—former Clinton chief
of staff—along with his colleague, John Halpin, explains
how progressive values changed America in the wake of the
Gilded Age and how these values will reshape America after
the Bush presidency. Tapping the spirit of great
progressive leaders from Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt to
Martin Luther King Jr., The Power of Progress provides the
road map toward a government responsive to the needs of its
citizens; one that is focused on our generation’s greatest
challenges: combating global warming, growing our economy
and expanding the middle class, and meeting America’s
twenty-first-century security challenges.
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