Making Ideas Matter: My Life as a Policy Entrepreneur

This book is a primer on mobilizing political power to achieve enlightened goals in a democracy. This is a book about how good politicians can compromise without abandoning moral principles. This is a book that will inspire future political leaders to hold on to their idealism rather than spiral into a cynical distrust of politics and government. Rep. Dwight Evans shows us that politics is a noble art, and with enough research, hard work and knowledge of the legislative process, politics can be the art of the impossible.

William Ecenbarger is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of Walkin' the Line: A Journey from Past to Present Along the Mason-Dixon,  Kids for Cash: Two Judges, Thousands of Children and a $2.6 Million Kickback Scheme , and "Glory by the Wayside: The Old Churches of Hawaii.  And he is the co-author of  Catching Lightning in a Bottle: How Merrill Lynch Revolutionized the Financial World.