Rebuild America: Solving the Economic Crisis Through Civic Works (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781594517211)

In Obama's America public works is once again a part of the national dialogue. Today it is offered as a solution to the economic downturn and to the public infrastructure crisis. This timely book examines the reasons for the economic crisis facing Main Street, and connects them to why the nation has structurally deficient bridges, weak levees, poorly maintained dams, and dilapidated schools. The book goes on to analyse the history of US public works, updating lessons from the New Deal, to understand the most effective way to organise a modern US civic works project, based on a civic works pilot project for the Gulf Coast. One chapter features new contributions by Howard Zinn, Angela Glover Blackwell, and other leading scholars and thinkers weighing in on how an US civic works project might solve our economic, infrastructure, and environmental crises.

Author: Scott Myers-Lipton
ISBN-10: 1594517215
ISBN-13: 9781594517211
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 08/30/2009
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.88lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.60d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 05/01/2010
Reference and Research Bk News 02/01/2010 pg. 116