The DeMarco Factor: Transforming Public Will into Political Power

by Michael Pertschuk

Book Overview

Vinny DeMarco might be a latter-day Don Quixote except that he tilts his lance at real obstacles to social justice: lobby-locked state legislatures and Congress, stonewalling the public will. And he makes impossible dreams come true. In twenty years of organizing campaigns in Maryland, he has led successful efforts to pass gun control laws (against National Rifle Association opposition), to hike cigarette taxes to prevent youth smoking, and to extend...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082651703X
• ISBN13: 9780826517036
• Release Date: June 2010
• Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.8"