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The Radical Center: The Future of American Politics Paperback – October 8, 2002

by Ted Halstead (Author), Michael Lind (Author)
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Record numbers of Americans describe themselves as “independents” and reject the conventional agendas of Left and Right. In this widely acclaimed book, Ted Halstead and Michael Lind explain why today’s ideologies and institutions are so ill-suited to the Information Age, and offer a groundbreaking blueprint for updating all sectors of America society. Taking on partisans and experts on both sides of the political divide, they propose far-reaching reforms for the way we provide health and retirement security, collect taxes, organize elections, enforce civil rights, and educate our children.

Twice before the United States has dramatically reconfigured itself, shifting from an agrarian to an industrial society after the Civil War and successfully adapting to the massive technological and demographic changes of the early twentieth century during the New Deal era. Uniting a sweeping historical vision with bold policy proposals, The Radical Center shows us how to reinvent our nation once again so that all Americans can reap the benefits of the Information Age.
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    0385720297
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  • Joseph Pawlak
    4.0 out of 5 stars and could easily be dismissed
    Reviewed in the United States on November 5, 2017
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    The title "The Radical Center " is a misnomer. I thought the book would be about the need for a emergence (or reemergence) of a new center coalition to address the damaging polarization of the right and the left. Instead the book is about a wide range of problems we must address and some novel solutions. The book claims that these problems have emerged because of the exertions of the information, but they do not make a strong case for this. While this seems to be a major premise of the book, the weak case they present is not a major flaw, as many of the proposed solutions could appropriate in any age, including the information age. That is the real strength, the novel solution in key areas from government and taxation, to education and healthcare. Many of the solution are indeed novel, and could easily be dismissed. However, that is the point if the book (at least for me). We need fresh ideas to get policy makers and society in general to rethink our problems and what we need to address them.
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  • Harmonious
    5.0 out of 5 stars Bold and comprehensive
    Reviewed in the United States on September 7, 2022
    My copy, which I bought used through Amazon, probably belongs to the first edition. There is a well thought out agenda, for our consideration, within the pages of this book. All the ideas presented are sensible and doable. I wish the authors would have been bolder and call out unambiguously for a unitary system for America to replace our worn out federal system. We might need a new Constitution as well.
    Finally, I think the authors made a glaring omission by not addressing the evolution of our collective spiritual beliefs because the spiritual is the departing point for everything else. Overall, this is a great book.
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  • E. S. Wilson
    4.0 out of 5 stars Much to Think About
    Reviewed in the United States on March 25, 2002
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    The Radical Center is very informative covering a very wide range of issues in current U.S. politics and putting them together in a thoughtful way and making creative proposals. It's refreshingly not dogmatic, postive and open-minded. I would highly recommend the book to any serious student of American policy today. It's an easy read. My criticism would be that the authors were too loose with their language at times leaving the reader to wonder whether (1) the authors had their facts wrong or (2) didn't recognize the implications of their words or (3) perhaps I was misinformed. For example, they state that the Demoncratic Party has been captured by its more extreme elements. But Clinton/Gore moved the Democratic Party decisively toward the center.
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  • oogleye
    1.0 out of 5 stars Seems pretty right wing to me
    Reviewed in the United States on May 30, 2005
    From what I can tell by the reviews on this page, all the proposals in this book are basically libertarian. It is thus highly misleading that the book calls itself centrist. The fact that only one person on this page has realized this, yet seems to think it's a good thing, is also rather disturbing.

    The book seems like a thinly veiled attempt to move political dialogue rightward by making radical neoconservative proposals--many of which the Bush administration clearly supports--seem moderate.

    Let's call a spade a spade.
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  • Amazon Customer
    5.0 out of 5 stars Truly Common Ground for the Future
    Reviewed in the United States on June 1, 2003
    Halstead and Lind have done a fantastic job of setting out a centrist manifesto for the new century. This book is recommended reading for anyone in politics who wants to understand the ideas that can be used to build new coalitions.
    Keep an eye on these two and The New America Foundation. They're writing about the things that everyone else will be discussing in ten years.
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  • David Fetter
    4.0 out of 5 stars Food for thought
    Reviewed in the United States on April 27, 2020
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    Renewal is needed in the US, and this book is an interesting read on the subject. The book traces previous reforms brought about by changing market, governance and social conditions - an interesting approach that is not intuitive. I would recommend this book to all our current politicians and those considering making a career out of politics.
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  • Joan W. Chevalier
    1.0 out of 5 stars Radical Center - term coined by a rancher
    Reviewed in the United States on July 2, 2007
    I don't know if the authors acknowledge this or not, but Bill McDonald first coined "radical center" as a way to describe the growing movement toward building cooperation and consensus in terms of resouce managment in the west. Bill is co-founder of the Malpai Borderlands Group and a MacArthur Genius Grant Recipient. He has been using this term, as are many rural communities (specifically western), for at least 5 years now. As one of the authors is described as a writer for the New Yorker, a magazine that has shown remarkably little interest in the viewpoints of working class western people, let alone its intellectuals, such as Dan Kemmis, I do hope the authors found their way to the origins of the expression. . . .
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