American Government and the Vision of the Democrats - Paperback

by Mark Louis LaTour (Author)

This work is a comprehensive introduction to the most important issues facing American citizens and their government. It addresses various interpretations of the proper role of government with a view towards the Democrats re-working of such integral issues as:
-States' rights
-Societal affluence and social needs
-Campaign finance reform
-Media Consolidation
-America's climbing debt ceiling
-China's military and political expansion
-Manufacturing's decline
-Job outsourcing
-The disappearance of pension plans
-The whittling away of America's middle class
-America's inadequate health care system
-Environmental degradation
-America's vanishing family farms

Author Biography

Mark Louis Latour writes about current political, social, and environmental issues. Over a period of two decades, Mr. Latour has worked as a Town Planner in California and Massachusetts, a City Administrator in North Carolina, Oklahoma, and Maryland; and a County Administrator in Colorado.
Mr. Latour was Chairman of the Business Management Department at Southern Vermont College in Bennington, where he also taught courses in American Government. He holds a Masters Degree in City and Regional Planning from Rutgers University and a Masters Degree in Business Administration from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Mr. Latour is currently writing a book on the politics of environmental preservation.