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The Resurgent Liberal

And Other Unfashionable Prophecies

Author Robert B. Reich
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$16.95 US
Knopf | Vintage
On sale Jan 30, 1991 | 320 Pages | 9780679731528
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If any book can change a nation's thinking, it has to be this brilliant and perceptive work by one of the most tough-minded bearers of the torch of liberalism. This collection of ground-breaking essays ranges from an unsparing look at the paper prosperity of the Reagan years and sobering predictions of a new stock market crash to prescriptions for a practical liberalism for the 1990s. Reich not only champions a cause, but looks fairly and unblinkingly at the conservative opposition. He carefully examines the four "parables" conservatives have exploited to monopolize American politics--and what liberals must do to take it back.

CONTENTS

1. The Paper Economy

2. The Real Economy

3. Of Cold and Tepid Wars

4. The Road to Quayle

5. The Resurgent Liberal
© Perian Flaherty
ROBERT B. REICH is Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. He has served in three presidential administrations, Republican and Democrat, as Secretary of Labor under Bill Clinton, and has written eighteen books, including The Work of Nations (translated into twenty-two languages) and the bestsellers The System, The Common Good, Saving Capitalism, and Locked in the Cabinet. His articles have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal. He is a columnist for Newsweek and The Guardian, and writes a daily newsletter at https://robertreich.substack.com/. He is co-creator of the award-winning film Inequality for All and the Netflix original Saving Capitalism, and co-founder of Inequality Media. He lives in Berkeley. View titles by Robert B. Reich

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If any book can change a nation's thinking, it has to be this brilliant and perceptive work by one of the most tough-minded bearers of the torch of liberalism. This collection of ground-breaking essays ranges from an unsparing look at the paper prosperity of the Reagan years and sobering predictions of a new stock market crash to prescriptions for a practical liberalism for the 1990s. Reich not only champions a cause, but looks fairly and unblinkingly at the conservative opposition. He carefully examines the four "parables" conservatives have exploited to monopolize American politics--and what liberals must do to take it back.

CONTENTS

1. The Paper Economy

2. The Real Economy

3. Of Cold and Tepid Wars

4. The Road to Quayle

5. The Resurgent Liberal

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© Perian Flaherty
ROBERT B. REICH is Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. He has served in three presidential administrations, Republican and Democrat, as Secretary of Labor under Bill Clinton, and has written eighteen books, including The Work of Nations (translated into twenty-two languages) and the bestsellers The System, The Common Good, Saving Capitalism, and Locked in the Cabinet. His articles have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal. He is a columnist for Newsweek and The Guardian, and writes a daily newsletter at https://robertreich.substack.com/. He is co-creator of the award-winning film Inequality for All and the Netflix original Saving Capitalism, and co-founder of Inequality Media. He lives in Berkeley. View titles by Robert B. Reich

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