Progressive Book Club

When Everything Changed, by Gail Collins

Elaine Showalter | Posted 05.25.2011

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Elaine Showalter

Collins uses her great sense of revealing anecdotes, engaging personalities, representative case histories, resonant stories, and startling details to defamiliarize a decade we thought we remembered.

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Obama, One Year On

Todd Gitlin | Posted 05.25.2011

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Todd Gitlin

The Obama operation proved its mastery at campaigning, looks pretty good at the inside game, but outsider politics--movement campaigns--haven't kept up.

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Why Books Are Still Central to Our Political Culture

Howard Dean | Posted 05.25.2011

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Howard Dean

Despite ongoing changes in technology, communications, and culture, books are consistently at the leading edge of new ideas, new social and political movements and new policy directions.

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Al Gore's Our Choice: Progressive Book Club Review

Progressive Book Club | Bill McKibben | Posted 05.25.2011

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Bill McKibben Progressive Book Club Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis By Al Gore Rodale, 2009 There's been a certain amount of debate ...

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Alan Wolfe on Terrorism and Globalization

Julian Brookes | Posted 05.25.2011

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Julian Brookes

An open world is the best remedy against terrorism. Bush talked a lot about the universal idea of human freedom. I think he was right in that language, but his policies encouraged the opposite.

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An Interview with Erica Payne, Author of The Practical Progressive

Julian Brookes | Posted 05.25.2011

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Julian Brookes

Erica Payne's book, The Practical Progressive: How to Build a Twenty-First Century Political Movement, is the essential guide to what's happening, who's who, and how to get involved in the new progressive "infrastructure."

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Conservative Book Marketing vs Progressive Book Marketing

J.S. McDougall | Posted 05.25.2011

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J.S. McDougall

When it comes to the mass marketing of ideas, the conservatives have been embarrassing the progressives for years. I attribute this to the simple fact...

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Progressives Launch First Major Book Club

New York Times | Posted 05.25.2011

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The progressive movement has prided itself on its ability to get its messages out by harnessing the Internet, through organizations like MoveOn.org an...

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