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Recalling his own career, Brown dramatizes the hard work and high ideals required to renew the social contract and create a new era in which Americans of all backgrounds can know the "Dignity of Work."About the Author Sherrod Brown is the senior United States Senator from Ohio, elected to his seat in 2006.
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Together, these Eight portraits in political courage tell a story about the triumphs and failures of the Progressive idea over the past century: in the 1930s and 1960s, and more intermittently since, politicians and the public have successfully fought against entrenched special interests and advanced the cause of economic or racial fairness. of Tennessee, Theodore Francis Green of Rhode Island, and William Proxmire of Wisconsin.
He also writes about Herbert Lehman of New York, Al Gore Sr.
Brown revives forgotten figures such as Idaho\'s Glen Taylor, a singing cowboy who taught himself economics and stood up to segregationists, and offers new insights into George Mc Govern, who fought to feed the poor around the world even amid personal and political calamities.
Kennedy, whose eyes were opened by an undernourished Mississippi child and who then spent the rest of his life afflicting the comfortable.
They range from Hugo Black, who helped to lift millions of American workers out of poverty, to Robert F.
Despite their flaws and frequent setbacks, each made a decisive contribution to the creation of a more just America.
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