Books
The corporate and political powers have led us astray, into an alien sphere of plutocracy and autocracy. For our country to find its way home back to our democratic ideals we must have pathblazers. Ralph Brauer’s book gives us a map for returning to America’s founding values of fairness, justice, and opportunity for all.
—-Jim Hightower
Today, we need this book. Brauer’s Age of Discontent is the flipside of the Gilded Age, a portrait of those farmers, factory hands, washerwomen, migrants, and land-grant college intellectuals—the men and women who reinvented democracy for the modern world. It’s a people’s epic written by a brilliant historian.
—-Joseph Kelly, director of Irish and Irish American studies, College of Charleston, and author, Marooned: Jamestown, Shipwreck, and a New History of America’s Origin
About
Ralph Brauer brings a combination of experiences in teaching, research, higher education administration, and grassroots activism to writing about the history of social change. He is a retired professor and college administrator whose career is complemented by community organizing, consulting, and service experience that earned him a coveted Bush Leadership Fellowship. An award-winning writer, his work has appeared in The Nation, Newsweek, and New York Times Magazine as well as various anthologies and journals. Brauer’s half-century of community service includes terms on his local planning commission and school board. A former wilderness canoe guide, he enjoys outdoor activities with his wife, a nursing professor emerita.
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