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Article: Imagining an American Utopia; In a post-Bush United States, four successive administrations work to improve democracy and the quality of life in sociologist Herbert J. Gans's "Utopian narrative.".('Imagining America in 2033: How the Country Put Itself Together after Bush' and 'Free Market Madness: Why Human Nature is at Odds with Economics - And Why it Matters')(Book review)
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- The Futurist
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- March 1, 2009
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Imagining America in 2033: How the Country Put Itself Together after Bush
by Herbert J. Gans. University of Michigan Press. 2008. 210 pages. $24.95. Order from the Futurist Bookshelf, www.wfs.org/bkshelf.htm.
If ever a book warranted a place by the bedside of the next president of the United States (and his Cabinet appointees), Herbert J. Gans's "Utopian narrative" Imagining America in 2033 is it. Likewise, any futurist eager to learn how the American presidents from now through 2033 might craft a remarkably finer country (and, thereby, a much better world) have an indispensable primer here. Written in the form of an engaging novel, rather than a stuffy ...