The Commons

In this third volume of his award-winning American Crisis series, James Gustave Speth makes his boldest and most ambitious contribution yet. He looks unsparingly at the sea of troubles in which the United States now finds itself, charts a course through the discouragement and despair commonly felt today, and envisions what he calls America the Possible, an attractive and plausible future that we can still realize.

Speth identifies a dozen features of the American political economy–the country’s basic operating system–where transformative change is essential, and he explains how system change can come to America.