Going Big
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Going Big

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

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Going Big

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

About this book

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.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Also by Robert Kuttner
  3. Title Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Foreword by Joseph E. Stiglitz
  7. 1. The Improbable Progressive
  8. 2. Roosevelt’s Fragile Revolution
  9. 3. The New Deal’s Long Half-Life
  10. 4. LBJ’s Tragedy and Ours
  11. 5. The Great Reversal
  12. 6. Bad Economics, Worse Politics
  13. 7. Obama’s Missed Moment
  14. 8. America’s Last Chance
  15. Acknowledgments
  16. Notes
  17. Index
  18. About the Author
  19. Publishing in the Public Interest
  20. Copyright