The Stakes, Robert Kuttner
The Stakes, Robert Kuttner
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The Stakes
2020 and the Survival of American Democracy

Author: Robert Kuttner

Narrator: Robert Kuttner

Unabridged: 7 hr 41 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 09/03/2019

Synopsis

To save both democracy and a decent economy, here's why it's crucial that Americans elect a truly progressive president. The 2020 presidential election will be pivotal for the credibility of government and for democracy itself, argues Robert Kuttner in this brief and compelling call to arms. Either we continue the twin slides into corrupt autocracy and corporate plutocracy? the course set in the past half century by Republican and Democratic presidents alike? or we elect a progressive Democrat in the mold of FDR. At stake is nothing less than the continued success of the American experiment in liberal democracy, which depends on a fairer distribution of life chances and a reduction of the financial industry's influence in the political sphere. Kuttner goes on to show convincingly that a progressive Democrat also has a better chance than a centrist of winning the presidency in the current political environment. A passionate book from one of our best political analysts, The Stakes will be the book to read ahead of the 2020 primaries.

About Robert Kuttner

Robert Kuttner is cofounder and coeditor of The American Prospect and the Economic Policy Institute and former columnist for both Business Week and the Boston Globe. The author of Can Democracy Survive Global Capitalism? and Going Big, he holds the Ida and Meyer Kirstein Chair at Brandeis University and lives in Boston.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Mal

Robert Kuttner has been helping set the progressive agenda for three decades as the cofounder and (current) coeditor of The American Prospect and as a cofounder and board member of the Economic Policy Institute. So, it's hard to think of anyone better qualified to make the case for electing a progre......more

Goodreads review by Ed

I’ve been a fan of Kuttner since he wrote for the Boston Globe back when the Globe had great op-ed writers like Ellen Goodman and Anthony Lewis. Now he edits The American Prospect and writes for Huffington Post. Occasionally you might hear him on NPR. In his new book, Kuttner makes a strong case for......more

Goodreads review by David

Bob Kuttner is a friend and a mentor, who did some of the original accountability reporting with Life of the Party in the 1980s. This is a short yet sturdy treatise, again banging the drum for an economic progressive in the White House instead of a corporate Democrat. With an infinite well of histor......more

Goodreads review by Sid

Progressive Democrats- supporters of Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren, for example--will like this book. Kuttner, long-time editor of the left-liberal periodical American Prospect, provides a thorough recounting of how Trump (and right-wing institutions before him in recent times) have relentlessl......more

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