Written by a professor of law at Yale University, The Greening of America is a serious attempt to analyze sympathetically the youth culture that is turning this country around. The author says that America's institutions are not working; 'America is dealing death, not only to people'. Professor Reich offers an interpretation of how America went wrong, and of the rebirth of human values that is emerging in the new generation. The analysis cuts across history, law, economics, sociology, psychology and philosophy. It asserts that the many ills of our society, from war to poverty to depersonalization, can all be understood as symptoms of the usurpation of all values by the modern corporate state, a usurpation that is just now beginning to be reversed. For we suffer from a lack of community and loss of self. Americans are violently alienated from themselves and from each other. Only the kind of transcendent revolution that our young people are proposing, based on the intuition that each of us can transform his own personal life now without 'waiting for the world to be right', can save us now.