The Real Change-Makers

This interesting and timely volume on effective independent grass roots organizing and democracy presents the case that government is not the cause or solution to many social problems, and that action by coalitions of individual social stakeholders will drive future progress towards solutions to a wide range of pressing social problems. While not presenting a strictly doctrinaire Libertarian argument, the work promotes the distancing of citizen initiative from government and the development of personal-level socio-political connections. Brown is a former Wall Street lawyer and deputy mayor of New York City. Annotation c2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

David Warfield Brown, JD, is the ongoing coeditor of Kettering's Higher Education Exchange, an annual publication.