Swim against the Current: Even a Dead Fish Can Go With the Flow

by Jim Hightower, Susan DeMarco (With)

Overview

America’s most irascible and hilarious curmudgeon turns a kind and benevolent eye toward brave, hardy, and hardworking souls around the country who have found ways to break free from corporate tentacles; redefine success in business, politics, and life in general; and blaze new pathways toward a richer and happier way of life, from the farmers’ cooperative that said “NO!” to Wal-Mart and thrived to the economists who got into the coffee business by accident and turned the entire industry on its ear.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781118185391
Publisher:	Trade Paper Press
Publication date:	09/09/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	224
File size:	672 KB

About the Author

Jim Hightower is a syndicated columnist, a national radio commentator, the publisher of the Hightower Lowdown newsletter, and the New York Times bestselling author of Thieves in High Places.

Susan DeMarco is a writer, a former radio talk-show host, a public-interest activist, and longtime Hightower partner-in-crime.

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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments xi

Introduction 1

PART ONE Business 5

CHAPTER 1 Business without Greed 7

CHAPTER 2 Fair Trade 14

CHAPTER 3 Cooperation Works 19

CHAPTER 4 Socially Responsible 29

CHAPTER 5 Putting Workers in Charge 42

CHAPTER 6 The Good (Business) Life 51

CHAPTER 7 Banking on Change 58

Connections for Part One 66

PART TWO Politics 73

CHAPTER 8 Shape Up, America! 75

CHAPTER 9 Run for It! 83

CHAPTER 10 Clean Elections 92

CHAPTER 11 Democracy School 105

CHAPTER 12 Build It! 111

CHAPTER 13 Granny Power 122

CHAPTER 14 The Politics of Fun 127

Connections for Part Two 134

PART THREE Life 139

CHAPTER 15 Take Charge! 141

CHAPTER 16 How We Live 151

CHAPTER 17 A Mass Movement Arises 158

CHAPTER 18 Flowers in the Field 164

CHAPTER 19 The Conscience of an Evangelical 176

Connections for Part Three 188

Final Thoughts 193

DeMarco's Reading List 197

Index 201

Editorial Reviews

* "We all need some inspiration from time to time to remind us of what we're fighting for, not just against. Hightower and DeMarco provide it in these pages, thank our lucky stars..." (DailyKos.com, April 6, 2008)

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