Mandate for Change - by Chester Hartman (Paperback)

About the Book

The incoming national administration has the opportunity to make a sharp break, in both domestic and international issues, with the failed, destructive policies of the past eight years.Mandate for Change provides in detail what should be done in each and every important area, ...

Book Synopsis

The incoming national administration has the opportunity to make a sharp break, in both domestic and international issues, with the failed, destructive policies of the past eight years.Mandate for Change provides in detail what should be done in each and every important area, in 47 short chapters written by the country's leading thinkers/activists.

Review Quotes

Mandate for Change presents the change we really do need from a who's who of progressive thinkers who've worked for change for years. This is a must read for the new administration and for all who want to help them succeed

As the failed ideas of the neoconservatives and the free-market fundamentalists come crashing down, here is a brilliant blueprint for the principles and the policies and the politics that can guide a new and more humane era of American history.

Mandate for Change presents the change we really do need from a who's who of progressive thinkers who?ve worked for change for years. This is a must read for the new administration and for all who want to help them succeeddddd

This collection of essays, by a veritable who's who of liberal activists, offers a top-to-bottom agenda for change.

About the Author

Chester W. Hartman, an associate fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies, is director of research and former president of the Poverty & Race Research Action Council and author of There is No Such Thing as a Natural Disaster: Race, Class and Hurricane Katrina, Poverty and Race in America: The Emerging Agendas, and City for Sale: The Transformation of San Francisco.