Your America
Subtitle: democracy's local heroes
By: John Siceloff, Jason Maloney ; introduction by David Brancaccio
Contributors: Maloney, Jason; Brancaccio, David
Edition: 1st pbk. ed.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 245
ISBN-13: 9780230614383
Subjects: Reformers; Social action; Social reformers; Biography; History
Description: Offers profiles of twelve citizens who have accomplished influential changes in their own communities, from Bill Graham, who took on the telecommunications giants, to Katie Redford, who transformed the way in which American corporations behave overseas.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The politics of empowerment; title: Have justice, will travel : Wynona Ward; title: Tomatoes of wrath : Lucas Benitez; title: Corporate cruelty : Katie Redford; title: Helping the children : John Walsh; title: A literary movement : Rueben Martinez; title: Agitate! agitate! agitate! : Robert Moses; title: Tell me the truth! : Peggy Buryj; title: A loud whistle : Bunny Greenhouse; title: Demanding the future; title: now : Bill Graham; title: Power to the people : Jackie Thrasher; title: Greening the Gulf : Diane Wilson; title: A river runs through it : Lynn and Devonna Owens; title: An American story.