num_pages: 208
description: From the best-selling author of Saving Capitalism and The Work of Nations a passionate clear-eyed manifesto on why we must restore the idea of the common good to the center of our economics and politics.With the warmth and lucidity that have made him one of our most important public voices Robert B. Reich makes the case for a generous inclusive understanding of the American project centering on the moral obligations of citizenship. Rooting his argument in everyday reality and common sense Reich demonstrates the existence of a common good and argues that it is this that defines a society or a nation. Societies and nations undergo virtuous cycles that reinforce and build the common good as well as vicious cycles that undermine it. Over the course of the past five decades Reich contends America has been in a slowly accelerating vicious cycle--one that can and must be reversed. But first we need to weigh what really matters and how we as a country should relate to honor shame patriotism truth and the meaning of leadership.Powerful urgent and utterly vital this is a heartfelt missive from one of our foremost political thinkers: a fundamental statement about the purpose of society and a cri de coeur to save America's soul.
language: English
title: The Common Good
publisher: Knopf Publishing Group