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...when he does a lot of people are taking notes. Many call Reich the primary reindustrial thinker the Democrats have. He has recently gained popular national prominence with the publication of his new book. The Next American Frontier, and has appeared in most major news weeklies as well as a smattering of newspapers and television programs spreading its message (see accompanying review). As one congressional aide says. "He's been hot with the policy makers now he's hot with the public...
...year old Reich is "somewhat embarrassed" by the bright lights focusing on Room 216. "On the one hand it is exhilarating to know that people are listening to what you are saying and take it seriously," he says, "but I'm uncomfortable with my person being the center of attention." He adds rather grimly that the publicity gives rise to feelings of envy among others, many of whom have toiled in the same vineyard for many more years than...
Then why all of a sudden is Bob Reich such a hot property? According to a Hart issues staffer, "Industrial and trade policy is central to the current policy debate and his book has hit a responsive chord...
...Reich himself is unsure. "I would like to think that the ideas themselves are attracting attention." But, he concedes that "maybe the book has come out at a time when there are so few other ideas that people are grasping at straws." But straws or not, Reich a veteran of six years of government service would rather be at this end of the well beaten path from Harvard Square to D C producing manuscripts than down there reacting to crises...
After his stints as assistant Solicitor General ("the best legal job in the Federal government") and as Director of Policy Planning at the Federal Trade Commission ("a highly charged atmosphere"). Reich says he needed a spell in the libraries and behind the lectern. "In government, I had to be there from the early morning in meetings or on the telephone until late at night and I was dealing with mostly quite short range problems. Ideally, people in government especially the position I was in do need time to be reflective, to gain perspective, and to explore other facets." Reich also...