Critical social welfare issues Book

I have to write a book and literature review for this book for school, so here's me getting some stuff out.

Written originally in the 1970s, Senator Mike Gravel updates his book for his run for president in 2008. Obviously, he would end up losing that race and Barack Obama would eventually become president. What's interesting about this book is that his ideas have permeated the zeitgeist of the Left's culture. Many of the chapters of the book were on policy ideas that may have been deemed radical in 2008 (certainly they were in the 1970s) that are now on the platform of nearly every Democrat running for office in the 2020s. It's refreshing to see that the progressive ideas that we are currently fighting for have existed for decades and there will always be people fighting for those ideas. Of course, it's also unfortunate that they haven't been fully realized yet.

This book felt like an overview of many of my views – though I would take Gravel's healthcare plan further to the Left; I'm sure he would do the same at this point with the ACA not living up to the original expectation.

The editing of the book could have been better. There were many instances of "than" and "then" mix-ups. Some parts of his chapters were long and dull, and that may have been because I was already aware of some of the facets he was discussing.