The Power of Progress: How America's Progressives Can (Once Again) Save Our Economy, Our Climate, and Our Country

Podesta, John

ISBN 10: 0307382559 / ISBN 13: 9780307382559

Published by Crown, 2008

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Association copy, inscribed on the title page: "To Maria Shriver, who is doing so much to build a woman's nation that is more just, more fair, more sustainable, and more progressive. With friendship and admiration, John Podesta." Maria Shriver is the niece of John F. Kennedy and the former First Lady of California, as she was formerly married to Arnold Schwarzenegger. She is also an accomplished longtime journalist and broadcaster. Among her feminist initiatives, in 2009 she launched "The Shriver Report: A Woman's Nation Changes Everything," a national studying report conducted with partner including with the Center for American Progress, CAP (which John Podesta founded). The report "revealed that American women, for the first time, make up half of the United States workforce and studied how that fact is impacting major institutions like family, business, government and faith organizations." Podesta was, of course, Bill Clinton's chief of staff, and later, somewhat notoriously, Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman. He and Shriver are both prominent Catholics. Blurbs by Bill Clinton, Janet Napolitano, Elena Kagan, and Tom Daschle. Blurbs by Bill Clinton, Janet Napolitano, Elena Kagan, and Tom Daschle. This book is generally about the power of progressivism, but it directly explores the challenge of climate change along the way, especially in later chapters including "Solving the Global Warming Crisis." A fine book with one small scuff to front board; still fine. In a near fine jacket. // Wood River Books specializes in place-based and environmental literature, with a special passion for association copies and notable inscriptions. We invite you to explore our dedicated, growing collection of signed and inscribed climate change books.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Power of Progress: How America's Progressives Can (Once Again) Save Our Economy, Our Climate, and Our Country
• Publisher: Crown
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0307382559
• ISBN 13: 9780307382559
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

AMERICA IS FACING UNPRECEDENTED CHAL LENGES—new threats to our economic well-being, our environment, and our security. The American people are looking for real answers; the next president must mobilize our government and our citizens in ways that no president has done since FDR. America needs the power of progress . . . once again.

At the turn of the twentieth century, the American Dream was beginning to dim in a nation riven by growing inequalities in wealth and run by a powerful network of privileged industrialists and their political allies. But that era also gave birth to a renaissance in American political thought that forever changed our nation.

At a time when conservative ideology served as an excuse for the accumulation of wealth and privilege, the original Progressive movement created a new political order built on America’s basic principles—justice and equality for all, economic opportunity, and a commitment to the common good.

The lives of all Americans have been profoundly improved by the achievements of progressive reformers, from the eight-hour workday and voting rights to our victory in the Cold War and the economic gains middle-class Americans enjoyed under our most recent progressive president, Bill Clinton. Today’s challenges demand a second great Progressive era. America needs an economy in which workers at every income level share in our riches; a climate policy that stops global warming and ends our addiction to fossil fuels; and American leadership in the global fight against terrorism, nuclear proliferation, and poverty.

In The Power of Progress, John Podesta—former Clinton chief of staff—along with his colleague, John Halpin, explains how progressive values changed America in the wake of the Gilded Age and how these values will reshape America after the Bush presidency. Tapping the spirit of great progressive leaders from Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt to Martin Luther King Jr., The Power of Progress provides the road map toward a government responsive to the needs of its citizens; one that is focused on our generation’s greatest challenges: combating global warming, growing our economy and expanding the middle class, and meeting America’s twenty-first-century security challenges.

About the Author

JOHN PODESTA was the White House chief of staff under President Bill Clinton from 1998 until 2001. He is currently president and chief executive officer of the Center for American Progress, a Washington, D.C.–based research and educational institute founded in 2003. Podesta is also a visiting professor of law at the Georgetown University Law Center.