Taking Back America And Taking Down the Radical Right

Taking Back America directly challenges the radical, reactionary policies of the Bush administration. In the past three years America has suffered a staggering decline in its fortunes, moving from prosperity to recession, from peace to war, from record federal budget surpluses to record deficits. Bush's legacy to America is one of pre-emptive strikes; destabilizing tax cuts; radical court-packing; the rollback of protection for workers, consumers and the environment; an assault on the rights of women and minorities; and a crony capitalist corruption devoid of shame. This important and inspiring collection of articles by leading figures from the progressive movement -- including Barbara Ehrenreich, Bill Moyers, Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, William Greider, Robert Reich, Benjamin Barber and James K. Galbraith -- lays out an agenda to take back America. The conservative ideas that have increasingly dominated the public and political arena for the past twenty-five years must be challenged by new strategies, institutions and movements. This is not simply an issue for the 2004 presidential election but a journey of a decade or more. As Bill Moyers states in his electrifying address, "This is the oldest story in America: the struggle to determine whether 'we, the people' is a spiritual idea embedded in a political reality -- one nation, indivisible -- or merely a charade masquerading as piety and manipulated by the powerful and privileged to sustain their own way of life at the expense of others." Book jacket.Vanden Heuvel, Katrina is the author of 'Taking Back America And Taking Down the Radical Right', published 2004 under ISBN 9781560255833 and ISBN 1560255838.