In Search of Progressive America

Herausgeber: Kazin, Michael

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Produktbeschreibung

The era of conservative dominance in the U.S. appears to be stumbling. But is the Left ready to step into the breach? "In Search of Progressive America" is a collection of ten essays by prominent writers that seeks to address the current state of promise and debate on the portside of U.S. politics.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Seitenzahl: 168
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Oktober 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 141mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 222g
• ISBN-13: 9780812220384
• ISBN-10: 0812220382
• Artikelnr.: 24482890

Autorenporträt

Michael Kazin is Professor of History at Georgetown University and the author of several books, including A Godly Hero: The Life of William Jennings Bryan and The Populist Persuasion: An American History. Frans Becker is Associate Director of the Wiardi Beckman Stichting, the think tank of the Dutch Labor Party. Menno Hurenkamp teaches sociology at the University of Amsterdam.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction—Toward a Second Coming?
—Michael Kazin
1. Democrats and the World
—Matthew Yglesias
2. Cultivating Our Own Garden
—Andrew J. Bacevich
3. America's Encounter with Immigrants
—Gary Gerstle
4. Can Media Help the American Left?
—Todd Gitlin
5. Think Tanks and the War of Ideas in American Politics
—Andrew Rich
6. From Incremental to Transformative Change
—Ezra Klein
7. Rebuilding the Welfare State in the United States
—Dean Baker
8. Families Valued
—Karen Kornbluh
9. How Labor Can Win
—Nelson Lichtenstein
10. The Once and Future Christian Left
—Michael Kazin