Romney’s Way :A Man and an Idea

Publication subTitle :A Man and an Idea

Author: Harris   T. George  

Publisher: Garrett County Press‎

Publication year: 2012

E-ISBN: 9781891053917

Subject: K81 Biography

Keyword: 传记

Language: ENG

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Romney’s Way

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George Romney built an unconventional political career that inspired and moved many, including his son Willard Mitt Romney. Romney's Way: A Man and An Idea is George Romney's story, from his Mormon upbringing, through his journey as a maverick industrialist to his place in Republican leadership in Democratic Michigan. In 1966, T. George Harris took a five-month leave as senior editor at Look magazine to study Romney, his successes and failures and his innovations. Moving freely through Romney's past and present, Romney's Way explores the dominant theme of his life: With workers, executives, consumers, parents, taxpayers, party members and the poor, he sought to give people control of the forces that impinged upon their lives. He believed he lived in an age that assumed that all citizens must be part of an inert if affluent mass. Romney instead had a practical vision of how participatory democracy can work for everyone. Harris frankly discusses the strengths and limitation and, above all, the rebellious originality of George Romney's "urban populism.” Everything about George Romney is examined, including 12 years of his tax returns. Deeply penetrating and provocative, Romney's Way provides vital insight into the world that nurtured and influenced Mitt Romney. A legendary magazine entrepreneur, T. George Harris turned Psychology Today from a wobbly startup into a publication widely recognized as the lifestyle magazine of the '70s. Later he launched American Health, which became the Bible of the health movement in '80s. He served as Washington correspondent for Time and as Time-Life-Fortune bureau chief in Atlanta, Chicago and San Francisco.

Chapter

1 The Unorthodox Candidate

2 They Swim Upstream

3 The Experimental Past

4 Growing Up In a Family Squad

5 Never Go to Bed Angry

6 A Missionary’s Long Underwear

7 Dialogue Inside the New Deal

8 From Riot to Civic Circus

9 To Build a Foreign Policy

10 Self-Trust In a Jam

11 The Choice-Killing Dinosaur

12 Community In the Factory

13 Family Freedom Funds

14 Mexicans, Negroes and Mormons

15 How to Back Into Politics

16 The Rise of the Ticket-Splitter

17 Urban Populist

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