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Reason: Why Liberals Will Win the Battle for America

For anyone who believes that liberalisn't a dirty word but a term of honor, this book will be as revitalizing as oxygen. For in the pages of Reason,one of our most incisive public thinkers, and a former secretary of labor mounts a defense of classical liberalism that's also a guide for rolling back twenty years of radical conservative domination of our politics and political culture.

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To do so, Robert B. Reich shows how liberals can:

.Shift the focus of the values debate from behavior in the bedroom to malfeasance in the boardroom

.Remind Americans that real prosperity depends on fairness

.Reclaim patriotism from those who equate it with pre-emptive war-making and the suppression of dissent

If a single book has the potential to restore our country's good name and common sense, it's this one.

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 272 pages

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