{"product_id":"the-radical-fund-how-a-band-of-visionaries-and-a-million-dollars-upended-america-hardcover","title":"The Radical Fund: How a Band of Visionaries and a Million Dollars Upended America - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJohn Fabian Witt\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAs recommended on \u003ci\u003eThe Ezra Klein Show\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eFrom Pulitzer Prize finalist John Fabian Witt comes the \"engrossing\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e) secret history of an epic experiment to remake American democracy. Before the dark money of the Koch Brothers, before the billions of the Ford Foundation, there was the Garland Fund.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 1922, a young idealist named Charles Garland rejected a million-dollar inheritance. In a world of shocking wealth disparities, shameless racism, and political repression, Garland opted instead to invest in a future where radical ideas--like working-class power, free speech, and equality--might flourish. Over the next two decades, the Garland Fund would nurture a new generation of wildly ambitious progressive projects. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The men and women of the Fund were rich and poor, white and Black. They cooperated and bickered; they formed rivalries, fell in and out of love, and made mistakes. Yet shared beliefs linked them throughout. They believed that American capitalism was broken. They believed that American democracy (if it had ever existed) stole from those who had the least. And they believed that American institutions needed to be radically remade for the modern age. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e By the time they spent the last of the Fund's resources, their outsider ideas had become mass movements battling to transform a nation. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e A \"fascinating\" testament to how \"radical philanthropy can foster important and necessary changes in American life\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e), \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Radical Fund \u003c\/i\u003eis a hopeful book for our anxious, angry age--and an empowering roadmap for how people with heretical ideas can bring about audacious change.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eJohn Fabian Witt is the Allen H. Duffy class of 1960 professor of law at Yale Law School and a professor in the Yale history department. He is the author of a number of books, including \u003ci\u003eLincoln's Code\u003c\/i\u003e, which was awarded the Bancroft Prize and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. His writing has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Nation\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe New Republic\u003c\/i\u003e, among other publications. He lives with his family in Connecticut where he tends an orchard, watches baseball, and fishes in the Long Island Sound.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 736\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.9 x 8.3 x 6.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 14, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49893462016155,"sku":"9781476765877","price":39.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0774\/4602\/1275\/files\/hc-nu_NQM19781476765877.webp?v=1792731095","url":"https:\/\/www.statesideqm.com\/products\/the-radical-fund-how-a-band-of-visionaries-and-a-million-dollars-upended-america-hardcover","provider":"Stateside Quartermaster, Ltd.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}