Reason
Why Liberals Will Win the Battle for America

This book was really good and well argued. Written in 2004 it's wickedly prescient about the events of today. Like any good manifesto it states the facts as they are, then gives actionable items for what we liberals need to do. It almost seems as if Obama did follow some of these suggestions and tha......more

I've been a fan of Robert Reich's no-nonsense commentary on Marketplace for quite some time, so it was no surprise to me that I enjoyed his 2004 book on the rise and predicted fall of radical conservatives ("Radcons"). What makes Reich's arguments so persuasive and effective is that he refuses to fr......more

Reason is Reich’s argument that the Radical conservatives, Radcons, will and must ultimately fail in their efforts to radically change the country to an image of what it was before the Progressive era in the beginning of the 20th century. He sees this group as waging an all out assault on political......more

I've consumed two other works by Reich, and I enjoyed them. This book was written much earlier than those other pieces, and that might be one reason why I did not enjoy this one as much. I'm a conservative, but never afraid to listen to the liberal argument--that's why I read this book. Unlike his o......more