unions and 100 public interest groups that laid out a progressive alternative political agenda. Raskin served as a Distinguished Fellow of the Institute for Policy Studies, in addition to teaching at George Washington University’s School of Public Policy and Public Administration and serving on the editorial board of The Nation magazine. He also advised the Congressional Progressive Caucus and conceptualized the network of local elected officials that evolved into the Institute for Policy Studies’ Cities for Peace project, which has coordinated hundreds of city council resolutions against the Iraq War. Raskin’s most recent scholarship included serving as the editor of a series of books laying out how to achieve peace and justice for the think tank's Paths for the 21st Century. The goal of this project was to generate ideas and proposals, across disciplinary lines and founded upon Raskin's notion of "reconstructive knowledge", which catalyze citizen action and help other scholars and activists pursue a progressive basis for a new society. Personal life Raskin was married twice. In 1957, he married author Barbara Bellman of Minneapolis. They had three children: Erika Raskin Littlewood, Jamie Raskin and Noah Raskin. They divorced in 1980. Barbara went on to write the novel "Hot Flashes" and later married author Anatole Shub. He resided in Washington, DC with his wife, Lynn Randels Raskin with whom he had one child, Eden Raskin. He also had nine grandchildren. Raskin continued in his passion of classical music, releasing his first piano recording, Elegy for the End of the Cold War in 2004. He died at the age of 83 on December 24, 2017, from a heart ailment. Raskin was the nephew of Max Raskin, a Milwaukee politician who later served as a state judge. Books (1962) The Limits of Defense, with Arthur Waskow (1965) The Viet-Nam Reader: Articles and Documents on American Foreign Policy and the Viet-Nam Crisis, edited with Bernard B. Fall (1965) A Citizen's White Paper on American Policy in Vietnam and Southeast Asia (1965) After 20 Years: Alternatives to the Cold War in Europe, with by Richard J. Barnet (1971) Being and Doing: An Inquiry Into the Colonization, Decolonization and Reconstruction of American Society and Its State (1971) Washington Plans An Aggressive War, with Ralph L. Stavins and Richard J. Barnet (1971) An American Manifesto, with Richard Barnet (1974) Notes on the Old System: To Transform American Politics (1975) The American Political Deadlock: Colloquium on