Robert Reich

Robert Bernard Reich (born June 24, 1946) was the 22nd United States Secretary of Labor, serving under President Bill Clinton from 1993 - 1997.

Currently, Reich is University Professor and Maurice B. Hexter Professor of Social and Economic Policy at Brandeis University.

Biography

Robert Reich was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania in 1946, and grew up in the rural community of South Salem, New York. The son of owners of two retail clothing stores, he went on to graduate from Dartmouth College in 1968, obtained an M.A. as a Rhodes Scholar at University College of Oxford University, and a J.D. from Yale Law School in 1973. For more than 20 years, he has lived in Cambridge, Massachusetts with his wife, Clare Dalton, a law professor at Northeastern University who started and runs Northeastern's Center on Domestic Violence.

Previous Positions

• Faculty, Harvard University Kennedy School of Government
• Director of Policy Planning Staff of the Federal Trade Commission during the Carter administration
• Assistant to the Solicitor General, Department of Justice during the Ford administration
• Co-founder and former chairman of the political magazine The American Prospect
• In 2002, Reich ran an unsuccessful campaign for the Democratic nomination for governor of Massachusetts

Books

Reich is the author of several books, including:

• The Work of Nations: Preparing Ourselves for 21st Century Capitalism - probably his most important work, it has been translated into at least 22 languages
• I'll Be Short: Essentials for a Decent Working Society
• The Future of Success: Working and Living in the New Economy
• Locked in the Cabinet
• Public Management in a Democratic Society
• Tales of a New America: The Anxious Liberal's Guide to the Future
• The Resurgent Liberal: And Other Unfashionable Prophecies
• Minding America's Business: The Decline and Rise of the American Economy (co-author)
• New Deals: The Chrysler Revival and the American System (co-author)
• The Next American Frontier (co-author)

Sources

• http://www.robertreich.org/reich/biography.asp
• http://www.heller.brandeis.edu/faculty.asp

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