John Atlas and Peter Dreier

About John Atlas and Peter Dreier

John Atlas, president of the New Jersey-based National Housing Institute and author of Seeds of Change: The Story of ACORN, America's Most Controversial Anti-Poverty Group (Vanderbilt University Press, 2010), blogs for the Newark Star Ledger and is working on a documentary about ACORN. A New Jersey native, Peter Dreier teaches politics and chairs the Urban & Environmental Policy Department at Occidental College. His latest book is The 100 Greatest Americans of the 20th Century: A Social Justice Hall of Fame (Nation Books, 2012).