Centering America
Resurrecting the Local Progressive Ideal
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Centering America portrays and examines an overlooked common vision of contemporary political, social, and environmental reform manifestos—the local progressive ideal—local self-governance and the independent economic individual. This ideal was overcome at the outset of the twentieth century by national progressive beliefs but is being resurrected, providing an agenda on which our centrist political majority can come together. Taking its heading from the temper of the American people and the wisdom of our Founders, the book sets a center-right course for our ship of state. It proposes the kind of distant aim for our nation that Tocqueville advocated.
Lewis Lapham, Editor of Harper’s, has expressed his admiration for the author’s writing. Others say about this book:
LAMAR ALEXANDER, Secretary of Education, Bush Administration,1989-93, Governor of Tennessee, President, Univ. of Tennessee
BRUCE K. NICHOLS, Senior Editor, The Free Press
DR. ANN STOUFFER BISCONTI, President, Bisconti Research
DR. DOMINIC J. MONETA, President, Resource Alternatives
The Honorable William H. Young was a presidential appointee in the first Bush administration, where he made major contributions to ending the cold war and enabling future economic growth while avoiding global warming. He has been an officer and director of large corporations and dealt extensively with public policy. A lifelong student of social, political, and humanistic ideas and their history, he uniquely combines the perspectives of diverse, high-level experience with the views of eminent thinkers in various fields to achieve the book’s broad and persuasive coverage of interrelated national issues in governance, business, and environmentalism.
About the Author
The Honorable William H. Young was a presidential appointee in the first Bush administration, where he made major contributions to ending the cold war and enabling future economic growth while avoiding global warming. He has been an officer and director of large corporations and dealt extensively with public policy. A lifelong student of social, political, and humanistic ideas and their history, he uniquely combines the perspectives of diverse, high-level experience with the views of eminent thinkers in various fields to achieve the book’s broad and persuasive coverage of interrelated national issues in governance, business, and environmentalism.