Andrew L. Yarrow, a senior fellow at the Progressive Policy Institute, has been a New York Times reporter, a Labor Department speechwriter, and a U.S. history professor at American University, and has been affiliated with the Brookings Institution and the Aspen Institute. He has published four previous books, writes frequently for national media, and also has worked or consulted for Public Agenda, Oxfam America, the Export-Import Bank, the World Bank, UNICEF, the U.S. Department of Education, and the Kettering Foundation.
