The New Republic Guide To The Issues: The '96 Campaign

by Michael Lind

A collection of essays compiled from the pages of The New Republic magazine includes articles on affirmative action, crime, welfare, Social Security, campaign financing, the environment, national security, race relations, health care, education, taxes, and abortion. Original.

272 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1996

About the author

Currently Policy Director of the Economic Growth Program at the New America Foundation in Washington, Michael Lind has been an editor or staff writer for The New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine, and The New Republic and writes frequently for The New York Times and the Financial Times. He is the author of more than a dozen books of history, political journalism, and fiction, including a poetry chapbook, When You Are Someone Else (Aralia Press, 2002), Bluebonnet Girl (Henry Holt and Co. (BYR), 2003), a children’s book in verse, which won an Oppenheimer Toy Prize for children’s literature, and a narrative poem, The Alamo (Replica Books, 1999), which the Los Angeles Times named as one of the best books of the year. His first collection of verse, Parallel Lives, was published by Etruscan Press in 2007.