During more than five decades in public life, Walter Mondale has played a leading role in America’s movement for social change-in civil rights, environmentalism, consumer protection, and women’s rights-and helped to forge the modern Democratic Party. Here, with a measured tone of reason and a belief in compromise, Mondale reflects on a career of highs and lows with a set of unwavering progressive values at its core. Including a new preface in this paperback edition, The Good Fight is a compelling account of a lifetime of public service that sheds light on important events and issues of recent American history and how they affect our lives today.…mehr
During more than five decades in public life, Walter Mondale has played a leading role in America’s movement for social change-in civil rights, environmentalism, consumer protection, and women’s rights-and helped to forge the modern Democratic Party. Here, with a measured tone of reason and a belief in compromise, Mondale reflects on a career of highs and lows with a set of unwavering progressive values at its core. Including a new preface in this paperback edition, The Good Fight is a compelling account of a lifetime of public service that sheds light on important events and issues of recent American history and how they affect our lives today.
Walter F. Mondale figured prominently in American politics for five decades, as a state attorney general, U.S. senator from Minnesota, vice president of the United States, Democratic candidate for president in 1984, and U.S. ambassador to Japan. He lives in Minneapolis. David Hage is an editor at the Star Tribune of Minneapolis and St. Paul. His books include Reforming Welfare by Rewarding Work (Minnesota, 2004).
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Contents PrefaceIntroduction: Taking Care 1. A Progressive Takes Root2. High Tide3. The Fight for Equality4. Lost Trust: Vietnam and the Election of 19685. Poverty and Opportunity6. The Battle for a More Responsive Senate7. Spies, Security, and the Rule of Law 8. Meeting a New Democrat9. Our First Year in the White House10. Showing the World a Different America11. America in an Age of Limits12. Hostage Crisis13. The Election of 198014. Mondale vs. Reagan15. An Alliance in Asia 16. Looking Forward AcknowledgmentsIndex
Contents PrefaceIntroduction: Taking Care 1. A Progressive Takes Root2. High Tide3. The Fight for Equality4. Lost Trust: Vietnam and the Election of 19685. Poverty and Opportunity6. The Battle for a More Responsive Senate7. Spies, Security, and the Rule of Law 8. Meeting a New Democrat9. Our First Year in the White House10. Showing the World a Different America11. America in an Age of Limits12. Hostage Crisis13. The Election of 198014. Mondale vs. Reagan15. An Alliance in Asia 16. Looking Forward AcknowledgmentsIndex
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