Thomas Croft is an international expert on innovative capital strategies and jobs-oriented economic revitalization strategies. He has served as Director of the Heartland Network, a working group of responsible pension investment advocates in the U.S. and Canada. He is the author of Up from Wall Street: The Responsible Investment Alternative, published by Cosimo, Inc., and he commissioned Working Capital: The Power of Labor's Pensions (Cornell University Press, 2001). In his other day job, Croft is Executive Director of the Steel Valley Authority (SVA), a growing regional development authority in Pennsylvania.

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One Year After

Posted November 4, 2009 | 01:15 PM (EST)


1935 opened as a year of acute political turbulence. Squalls were making up in every quarter, while the skipper stalled and vacillated, now beating to windward, now turning and running before the blow.

By his third year in office, FDR was in serious trouble, according to The Politics of Upheaval,...

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