Thus Charles Reich is this extraordinary book which raced to the top of the American non-fiction best seller lists and which (according to the Sunday Times) has unleashed a debate that reminds some in its impetuosity and effervescence of the one that followed Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, and others of the Kinsey Report. Optimistic, lucid and wide ranging (across economics, history, law, sociology, psychology and philosophy), The Greening of America shows not only how the corporate state has usurped all values but how the young generation in their creativity, their rediscovery of community and freedom has set in train a movement that may transform America and even the world.