Taking Back America

Katrina vanden Heuvel and Robert L. Borosage
April 2004     ISBN: 1560255838

Taking Back America directly challenges the radical, reactionary policies of the Bush Administration. In the past three years America has suffered a staggering decline in its fortunes, moving from prosperity to recession, from peace to war, from record federal budget surpluses to record deficits. Bush's legacy to America is one of pre-emptive strikes; destabilizing tax cuts; radical court-packing; the rollback of protection for workers; consumers and the environment; an assault on the rights of women and minorities; and a crony, corrupt, capitalist culture devoid of shame.

The conservative ideology that has increasingly dominated the public and political arena for the past twenty-five years must be challenged by new strategies, institutions and movements. As Bill Moyers states in his electrifying address, "This is the oldest story in America: the struggle to determine whether 'we, the people' is a spiritual idea embedded in a political reality--one nation, indivisible--or merely a charade masquerading as piety and manipulated by the powerful and privileged to sustain their own way of life at the expense of others."

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.