Leading progressive writers and thinkers set forth a bold manifesto for a new America going into the election season.America is a country of immense wealth, resources and potential, yet the deeply divisive years of the Bush administration have bequeathed immense social and political problems upon a nation that appears to have lost its way. Whoever wins the election in 2008 will face staggering challenges; the fallout from a lost war and the worst foreign policy debate in recent history; climate change of catastrophic consequence; a broken health care system; the shredding of the greatest social inequality since the Gilded Age; a democracy suborned by corruption and money; and, a cynical cashing in of public resources in which investment has been withheld from schools to modern communication systems in order to finance an unpopular war abroad.In "Ideas Matter", Katrina vanden Heuvel, the editor and publisher of American magazine "The Nation" and Robert Borosage, lay out the foundation for creating a better and more just America.
This book brings together the best progressive thinkers of our day to propose new ideas that are commensurate with the size of the problem faced by the nation.
- ISBN10 1568583931
- ISBN13 9781568583938
- Publish Date 7 August 2008
- Publish Status Cancelled
- Out of Print 21 October 2009
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Avalon Publishing Group
- Imprint Nation Books
- Format Paperback
- Pages 224
- Language English