Going Big

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

By: Robert Kuttner, Joseph E. Stiglitz - foreword

Narrated by: Robert Kuttner

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, best-selling 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.

©2022 Robert Kuttner; Foreword copyright 2022 by Joseph E. Stiglitz (P)2022 HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books

Must read for every progressive

Roadmap for progressive change and victory in future. Must read for Liberals and Progressives. Outstanding.

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So simple and so clear

Us, every day, Americans get played most of the time. Read this to understand how and by whom. Greed is the root of all evil. We, as humans, need to recognize it and participate in our Democracy to battle it. Greed won't go away, but for the sake of your children, read this book and act.