Going Big

FDR's Legacy, Biden's New Deal, and the Struggle to Save Democracy

• Author(s): Robert Kuttner,
• Publisher: New Press
• Pages: 218
• ISBN_10: 1620977273
  ISBN_13: 9781620977279
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Biography & Autobiography / Presidents & Heads of State , History / United States / 20th Century , History / United States / 21st Century , Law / Government / Federal , Political Science / General , Political Science / Political Process / Political Parties , Political Science / Public Policy / Economic Policy , Political Science / Political Process / Leadership , Political Science / Public Policy / General , Political Science / American Government / National , Political Science / American Government / General , Political Science / American Government / Executive Branch , Political Science / Commentary & Opinion , Social Science / Social Classes & Economic Disparity ,

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With history and the extraordinary parallels between Biden and FDR as his guide, the veteran political analyst diagnoses what's at stake for America in 2022 and beyond

Joe Biden has found his way back to Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal. After four decades of diminishing prospects for ordinary people, the public likes what Biden is offering. Yet American democracy is in dire peril as Republicans, increasingly the national minority, try to destroy democracy in order to cling to power. It is the best of times and the worst of times. In Going Big, bestselling author and political journalist Robert Kuttner assesses the promise and peril of this critical juncture.

Biden, like FDR in his time, faces multiple challenges. Roosevelt had to make terrible compromises with racist legislators to win enactment of his program. Biden, to achieve the necessary governing coalition, needs to achieve durable multiracial coalitions. Roosevelt had to conquer fascism in Europe; Biden must defeat it at home. And after four decades of neoliberal policy disasters reflecting Wall Street's political influence, Biden needs to go beyond what even FDR achieved, to restore a democratic economy of broad possibility.

From a writer with an unparalleled understanding of the history and politics that have made this moment possible, this book is the essential guide to what is at stake for Joe Biden, for America, and for our democracy.