“It’s a bitch,” says Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers. “And I thought it would kill me.”
But writing a book didn’t kill her. Here she is, on the fifteenth floor of the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, holding forth to about 20 graduate students. The fruit of her nearly deadly labors sits on the table before her. Signed copies are for sale in the back. The title screams off the page in red and blue ink: Why Fascists Fear Teachers: Public Education and the Future of Democracy.
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