Centering America: Resurrecting the Local Progressive Ideal - Hardcover

Young, William H.

9781401033422: Centering America: Resurrecting the Local Progressive Ideal

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1401033423 ISBN 13: 9781401033422

Publisher: Xlibris Corp, 2002

Centering America portrays and examines an overlooked common vision of contemporary political, social, and environmental reform manifestos - the local progressive ideal - local self-governance and the independent economic individual. This ideal was overcome at the end of the twentieth century by national progressive beliefs but is being resurrected, providing an agenda on which our centrist political majority can come together. Taking its heading from the temper of the American people and the wisdom of our Founders, the book sets a center-right course for our ship of state. It proposes the kind of distant aim for our nation that Tocqueville advocated.

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About the Author:

The Honorable William H. Young was a presidential appointee in the first Bush administration, where he made major contributions to ending the cold war and enabling future economic growth while avoiding global warming. He has been an officer and director of large corporations and dealt extensively with public policy. A lifelong student of social, political, and humanistic ideas and their history, he uniquely synthesizes the perspectives of diverse, high-level experience with the views of eminent thinkers in various fields to achieve the book's broad and persuasive coverage of interrelated national issues in governance, business, and environmentalism.

Review:

An excellent job of describing contrary positions using their own words. This approach adds objectivity and persuasiveness to your arguments. -- Dr. Dominic J. Moneta, President, Resource Alternatives

Fascinating reading and a great reference document. What you have to say is both courageous and important. -- Dr. Ann Stouffer Bisconti, President, Bisconti Research

It's very nice to see the label "progressive" rescued from its lefty keepers. -- Bruce K. Nichols, Senior Editor, The Free Press

Your thinking is both original and timely. The idea of a "local progressive ideal" is a compelling one. -- Lamar Alexander, former U. S. Secretary of Education and Governor of Tennessee

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