The future of American progressivism
Subtitle: an initiative for political and economic reform
By: Roberto Mangabeira Unger and Cornel West.
Contributors: West, Cornel.
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 93
Subjects: Progressivism (United States politics); United States -- Politics and government -- 1993-2001.; United States -- Economic policy -- 1993-2001.
Description: Returning to the most fundamental goal of democracy - the realization of the potential of all citizens - and drawing on the best of the American progressive tradition, the authors challenge the widely held assumption that it's impossible to stimulate economic growth and at the same time guarantee opportunity and a minimum of resources for all citizens.

Seizing the quintessentially American idea that everything is possible, Roberto Mangabeira Unger and Cornel West argue that we can use it to reinvent our public institutions. While they propose specific reforms in business, taxation, social security, and education, their program is an image of American political and civic life as a vital, evolving, and hopeful arena for solving our collective problems.