“Compelling . . . an extremely sympathetic and worthy attempt to protect kids . . . [Benforado] has written a book that reads like a manifesto. His ideas are bold, to the point, and ambitious.”—The Atlantic

“Ambitious . . . His unifying argument is anti-inertial. . . . The book blew my mind.”—Salon

“A bracing, encyclopedically researched, surprisingly hopeful take on how we could get ourselves a better country by enshrining children’s rights in the law.”—New York

“Adam Benforado has created a powerful new way to look at American society through the lens of our children: at once our biggest assets and our most vulnerable members. He weaves compelling real-life stories with legal and economic analysis to deliver a bracing indictment of our society’s self-sabotage. He doesn’t end there, however; his final recommendations for how to change course are both revolutionary and accessible.”—Heather McGhee, New York Times bestselling author of The Sum of Us

“An urgent call for us to rethink our societal priorities and start putting children first. Adam Benforado doesn’t just expose the wrongs done to kids around the world and in our own backyards—he offers a road map for righting them.”—Adam Grant, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Think Again and host of the TED podcast Re:Thinking

“A Minor Revolution is a major revelation. With a prosecutor’s precision and a reformer’s passion, Adam Benforado has crafted an agenda-setting book—one that offers a startling look at the present and a hopeful path for the future.”—Daniel H. Pink, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Power of Regret, Drive, and A Whole New Mind

“Adam Benforado’s accessible new book combines vividly written case studies with a comprehensive review of the latest scientific research to offer a simple but radical prescription for what ails America—put our kids first. It is a must-read for anyone of any political persuasion who is concerned with restoring the American dream of equal opportunity and upward mobility.”—Robert D. Putnam, New York Times bestselling author of Our Kids

“A Minor Revolution will forever challenge the way you think about America’s treatment of her children.”—Dorothy A. Brown, author of The Whiteness of Wealth

“A Minor Revolution sounds an alarm bell we all should have heard one hundred years ago. Maybe, maybe, this time we’ll listen.”—Janti Soeripto, president and CEO of Save the Children US

“A thoughtful and practical manifesto for large-scale reform . . . Benforado argues persuasively for the need to prioritize children’s welfare by the government, the law, businesses, and the community as a whole.”—Kirkus Reviews

“In this persuasive and wide-ranging study, [Benforado] show[s] an urgent need to ‘put children first.’ . . . . Deeply researched and passionately argued, this is an irrefutable call for change.”—Publishers Weekly