Speaking American: How the Democrats Can Win in the Nineties

by David Kusnet

Book Overview

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1560250275
• ISBN13: 9781560250272
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: Thunder's Mouth Press
• Length: 240 Pages

Customer Reviews

Superb Primer for Democratic Hopefuls

I first purchased and read this book back when it was an important document in the 1992 primary season. Kusnet's gift for rhetoric and understanding of American hopes and fears remains apropo twelve years later. At a time when so many Democrats are hard-pressed to find their voice, they could not do better than to start by studying this superb book.

Ahead of its time. Kusnet should update it for the millenium

Kusnet is the "secret weapon" of progressive Democratic politics in America.He has a born gift for articulation and call to action. Beyond that, he has a special calling ,I believe, and a quality "connection" with the spirit that sustains the best that is America. America.His advocacy of use of the term "Investment," for example, for helping rebuild America's cities, predated the Workforce Investment Act (WIA) which goes into effect broadly on July 1, 2000. His comments about work and workers are particularly poignant. He has much to say about Democratic politics but also, and more importantly, about the shape and nature of work and workers in the emerging new America.He needs to update his book, and change it some, with a title like, "Acting American: a guide to skills essential for workers building the new USA."