Meltdown

Katrina vanden Heuvel
January 2009     ISBN: 1568584334

America's economy is in meltdown. Banks have failed, foreclosures are sweeping the housing market and the Dow Jones has suffered its worst losses since the Great Depression.

At every step of the way, The Nation, America's leading progressive weekly magazine, has tackled the most urgent questions facing the nation's leaders and its citizens with clarity and insight. Stretching back 20 years and edited by Katrina vanden Heuvel and the editors of The Nation, Meltdown draws together the best of the magazine's coverage of the financial crisis and explores what steps President Obama and his new administration must take to ensure a more secure future for everyone.

Contributors include:

William Greider on Alan Greenspan's flawed ideology
Robert Sherrill on why the bubble popped
Thomas Frank on the rise of market populism
Christopher Hayes on the coming foreclosure tsunami
Barbara Ehrenreich on the implosion of capitalism
Kai Wright on how the subprime crisis is bankrupting black America
and much more.

Katrina vanden Heuvel has been the editor of The Nation magazine since 1995. She is the coeditor of Taking Back America and Voices of Glasnost, and editor of The Best of the Nation and A Just Reponse. She is a frequent commentator on MSNBC, CNN, and PBS. Her articles have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, and the Boston Globe. She lives in New York City.