* As Tavis Smiley reports in his new book on Martin Luther King, Jr., the civil rights leader faced a major decline in popularity during his last few years, as many thought his social
justice agenda too radical.
Modernisation is
too often caricatured as privatisation in this book, and fails to grasp that New Labour's reform
agenda was not in opposition to social
justice, but the only way in a changing world to achieve it.»