Matt's book, "The Two Percent Solution: Fixing America's Problems In Ways Liberals And Conservatives Can Love," was published by PublicAffairs on September 2, 2003. The book offers a common sense plan that can bring liberals and conservatives together to deliver health care, great schools and a living wage for everyone - for just two cents on the national dollar.

Reviews of The Two Percent Solution

Praise for The Two Percent Solution

Most people think that making America a far more decent place - a place with a lot less poverty and misery - is an unattainable dream. It ain't so - and this book explains why. Matt Miller's book is the best explanation I've seen so far of how a bit more money and a lot more sense can improve our society.

Read the first 50 pages of The Two Percent Solution and you won't be able to stop. Matt Miller is a major new talent in American public life, and his first book flows like a fresh, cold stream through the Rockies, slicing through mountains of rhetoric toward irresistible conclusions. But be warned: you won't be able to finish the book without feeling incensed about the way we're failing to fix our health care, our schools, and our future.

Matthew Miller shows that the biggest crisis we face is the crisis of imagination. Political leaders refuse to think outside the conventional ruts. But Miller has done just that, superbly. I haven't felt this hopeful about domestic policy and our national prospects in a long time.

If liberals and conservatives could ever agree on anything, it would have to be something as blazingly simple as Matt Miller's "two percent solution." And Miller is one hundred percent right: We've got to get serious about fixing our nation's substandard schools, insultingly low wages, and unaffordable health insurance. The Two Percent Solution is an ideal place to begin the debate on rebuilding America.

Original, arresting, and carefully argued, The Two Percent Solution establishes Matt Miller as the liberal to reckon with. Conservatives need to pay attention -- because what Miller is proposing today, we're all going to be debating tomorrow.

Matt Miller's Two Percent Solution challenges us to get serious about social justice by confronting the reality of America, not the unreality of most political campaigns. This critical book asks us to open our minds far enough to see that real remedies exist for some of this country's toughest problems.

Whether you mostly agree or disagree with Matt Miller, you can never fault him for thinking small. Indeed, he is fast becoming one of the most original and interesting essayists on politics and policy in the country. The Two Percent Solution offers another intelligent challenge to the tired conventions of contemporary political debate from a man whose chief interest is always the progress of his country.

The Two Percent Solution proves what those who have read his newspaper column know: Matt Miller is not only brilliant but he has what is even rarer, an original mind that comes up with fresh answers to old problems. And what's more, he presents it all in prose that is as lively as it is incisive.