[bksvol-discuss] Submission
- From: "Deborah Murray" <blinkeeblink@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "BookShare" <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 21:00:12 -0500
HI all,
I just submitted for validation The Conscience of a Liberal by Paul Krugman.
It's been read through and corrected. The headers have been stripped and the
page numbers and chapter titles are protected.
From the book jacket:
America emerged from Franklin Roosevelt's
New Deal with strong democratic values and broadly
shared prosperity. But for the past thirty years
American politics has been dominated by a conservative
movement determined to undermine the New Deal's
achievements-a movement whose founding manifesto was
Barry Goldwater's The Conscience of a Conservative. That
movement has been highly successful in turning the clock
back: both the inequality of today's America and the
corruption of its political life hark back to the age of
the robber barons.
Now, the tide may be turning-and in The Conscience of a
LiberalPaul Krugman, the world's most widely read
economist and one of its most influential political
commentators, charts the way to reform.
Krugman ranges over a century of history, from the
political economy of the Gilded Age- which seems all too
familiar these days-to the calamities of the Bush years,
which he argues were inevitable once movement
conservatives gained full control of the U.S.
government. He shows that neither the middle-class
America the baby boomers grew up in nor the increasingly
oligarchic nation we have become over the past
generation evolved naturally: both were created, to a
large extent, by government policies guided by organized
political movements. He explains how defenders of
inequality have exploited cultural and racial divisions
to their advantage, while reformers have found ways to
bridge those divisions. And he argues that the time is
ripe for another great era of reform.
Enjoy...
Deborah
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