Authors@Google: Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger

Authors Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger discuss their book "Breakthrough" as part of the Authors@Google series. Breakthrough is the awaited follow-up to the original essay, the authors give us an expansive and eloquent manifesto for political change. What Americans really want, and what could serve as the basis for a new politics, is a vision capable of inspiring us to greatness. Making the case for abandoning old categories (nature/market, left/right), the authors articulate a pragmatism fit for our times that has already found champions in such prominent figures as Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. This book will hit the same nerve as What's the Matter with Kansas and Don't Think of an Elephant. But its analysis will reshape American politics for decades to come.

Seeing a connection between the failures of environmentalism and the failures of the entire left-leaning political agenda, the authors point the way toward an aspirational politics that will resonate with modern American values and be capable of tackling our most pressing challenges.

http://www.thebreakthrough.org/index.shtml

This event took place January 16, 2008 at Google Headquarters in Mountain View, CA.

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