About the Author:
Norton Garfinkle is chairman, The Future of American Democracy Foundation. He has taught economics at Amherst College and is former chairman of the George Washington University Institute for Communitarian Policy Studies. He lives in New York City.
Review:
“We can choose to chart a wiser economic path by starting with the principles that have inspired Americans from the beginning: Sticking with fiscal discipline, rewarding hard work, investing in our people, and growing a strong middle class. In The American Dream vs. The Gospel of Wealth, Norton Garfinkle addresses these important economic issues, issues that should be addressed at all levels of government and our society if we expect to maintain the American Dream for future generations."—Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton
(Hillary Rodham Clinton)
"This fascinating guided tour of America's past reminds us of the moral dimension of economic policy—which used to loom large, but which lately has been submerged. Garfinkle's book may help bring it back."—Alan Blinder, Princeton University, former Vice Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board (Alan Blinder)
"This book is clearly written, without jargon, and Garfinkle does a very good job of linking macroeconomic arguments with their political and moral implications."—Ian Shapiro, author of The Moral Foundations of Politics
(Ian Shapiro)
"A dramatic description of contemporary economic issues and their origin in the continuing struggle between the true American Dream inspired by Lincoln, Wilson and the two Roosevelts...and the Gospel of Wealth, identified in the 19th century with Social Darwinism and more recently with Harding, Coolidge, Hoover, Reagan and George W. Bush in particular. In its intelligence, historical understanding and felicity of style, Garfinkle's eminently readable volume is in the best tradition of American historical literature."—Richard D. Heffner, Rutgers University
(Richard D. Heffner)
"The American Dream vs. the Gospel of Wealth: The Fight for a Productive Middle-Class Economy is the most important book I've read in years. It is the clearest, most readable, most insightful, and most powerful account of how the Declaration of Independence and Lincoln's vision of government 'of, by, and for the people' are being turned upside down. Garfinkle has sounded the one trumpet that just might wake us up—if there is still time."—Bill Moyers
(Bill Moyers)
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