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commitment to poor children." The
next day, he got the invitation to
begin his book.
Searching for America's Heart
IV riting a book about
(Houghton Mifflin; $26), published
tackling poverty had
this month, traces Edelman's profes-
been a longtime dream
sional experiences fighting poverty and
of attorney and welfare
offers his recommendations for future
expert Peter Edelman, but the oppor-
strategies
tunity arose quite suddenly after he
I wanted to distill the experience
felt compelled to resign from the
I've had working on policies and issues
Clinton administration, where he
related to low-income people in this
served as an expert on welfare policy
country," says Edelman, a
and children.
professor of law at
"Searchingfir
Edelman, who had
Georgetown University.
America's Heart" lays
believed that Clinton
"The idea was not to sim-
the foundation for
would advance welfare
ply
go over the events of the
a
newly
conceived
programs, quit in 1996 to
year or two or three preced-
protest the president's sign- politics, a vision true
to the legacy of ing the time Clinton signed
ing of legislation that lim-
the welfare bill but to put
Robert E Kennedy,
ited social programs,
that in the broader context
asserts the author.
reducing "a 60-year federal
of what's happened to our
commitments and our atti-
tudes as Americans over the
SEARCHING FOR AMERICA'S HEART
course of the last 35 or 40
years."
While Edelman believes
that people have good
intentions for helping oth-
ers, he also thinks that they
are impeded by not being
adequately aware of prob-
lems, feeling overwhelmed
by their own situations or
assuming that those in need
can take more responsibility
for themselves in a wealthy
country.
Edelman hopes that his
book, joined with similar
writings and films, can lead
to political organizing to
achieve action and reform.
Searching for America's
Heart is divided into three
sections. The first, partly a
memoir because Edelman
worked for Robert Kennedy,

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