Stuck Nation: Can the United States Change Course on Our History of Choosing Profits Over People? is the work of award winning print and broadcast journalist Bob Hennelly, a frequent guest of our show Economic Update… and it is available now!
“Hennelly brilliantly analyzes our capitalist crises and how individuals cope with them, tragically but often heroically.”
Richard D. Wolff
Stuck Nation: Can the United States Change Course on Our History of Choosing Profits Over People? is the work of award winning print and broadcast journalist Bob Hennelly, a frequent guest of our show Economic Update… and it is available now!In his reporting, and this book, Hennelly bears witness to the ongoing assault of systemic racism, the toll from the World Trade Center toxic exposures, the attacks on our civil service by our own government, the breathtaking concentration of corporate media power, and the power of our collective agency, and more. The book features interviews with the key players and shapers of history - everyday people - as well as with union leaders and politicians, historians and academics, organizers and activists. Its depth reflects his many decades of on-the-ground reporting from the streets, to historical archives and the White House.
“One of journalism's prized possessions, investigative reporter Bob Hennelly has occupied a relentless forward position on every major issue of our time: from housing to healthcare, from education, economics, and social justice, to voting rights and labor.”
Max Pizarro, Insider NJ executive editor
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Stuck Nation’s depth reflects his many decades of on-the-ground reporting, from the streets to historical archives and the White House. In his reporting and in this book, Hennelly bears witness to the ongoing assault of systemic racism, the toll from the World Trade Center toxic exposures, the attacks on our civil service by our own government, the breathtaking concentration of corporate media, the power of our collective agency, and more. It features interviews with the key players and shapers of history - everyday people - as well as with union leaders and politicians, historians and academics, organizers and activists.
"With the skill of a seasoned reporter drawing from an impressive trove of scholarship and first-hand experience, Hennelly artfully presents a granular narrative of the political economy of contemporary US society that is simultaneously enlightening, infuriating and inspirational.”
Joe Wilson, PhD, Labor historian & Political Scientist
Stuck Nation lifts up the stories of those whom our capitalist system would otherwise see ‘disappeared’. It bears the human cost of our system and our silence. It holds accounts of individuals and a broader movement willing to put everything at risk to change our national narrative. Through it all, Hennelly shares his observations on the origins of our national stuck-ness, his reporting on how it endures, and his analysis of what might be required for us to change the course of our historical patterns, so that America can begin putting the wellbeing of its people ahead of its profits.
“Hennelly provides reasons to hope - he shows how all across the US, community groups and labor activists are reviving the combination of practical organizing plus a truly progressive agenda that is essential to get our “Stuck Nation” — and our “stuck planet” — unstuck.
A must read.”
James S. Henry, Esq. Investigative journalist, economist and lawyer. Global Justice Fellow, Yale University.