![]() ![]() ![]() America may be going through a rough patch, he acknowledges, but he is optimistic that Americans can overcome the hard times and make their country-or the federal government, at least-great again.ĭespite this book’s grandiose title, its contents are mostly less than fanciful. or around the world thought that the American government was getting a lot right at any level. Yglesias wrote his “maximum America” prescriptions during the Covid pandemic, at a time when few in the U.S. What precedes this curtain-call hat tip is a somewhat haphazard menu of policy items that Yglesias would like to see implemented in and by the United States. “In tweet form,” Yglesias says, “this whole book is simply ‘ Maximum Canada, but for America’” (p. At the end of One Billion Americans (on the very last page, buried in the Acknowledgements), Vox co-founder and Beltway pundit Matthew Yglesias writes that his book “owes a vast inspirational debt” to Saunders and Maximum Canada. (New York, NY: Portfolio/Penguin, 2020, 288 pages, hardcover, $24)Ĭanadian journalist Doug Saunders’ 2017 book Maximum Canada: Why 35 Million Canadians Are Not Enough is about growing Canada’s population in order to amplify the nation’s presence on the world stage. ONE BILLION AMERICANS: THE CASE FOR THINKING BIGGER ![]()
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