Instant book : "What We Do Now" Dean, Palast, Kristof and others.

[madfloridian]

Support our grassroots and activists. Buy a book today.

Found out this can be purchased at Amazon now as well, more cheaply. I lost the link. I posted this last night, but I put backslashes in the subject line....which messed up the formating and got it deleted. If anyone has the Amazon link, please post...it is cheaper. I prefer to buy from the publisher, but at least there is an option. This book sounds tremendous.

What We Do Now
Melville House Publishers
SNIP..."HOWARD DEAN, DONNA BRAZILE, GREG PALAST AND OTHERS JOIN
“WHAT WE DO NOW” INSTANT BOOK PROJECT

In a galvanizing call to arms in the wake of the presidential election, an all-star line-up of leading progressive voices and cultural figures has joined together in a Melville House "instant book" urging opponents of the right not to give in to despair and to launch an immediate counterattack.

The book, called WHAT WE DO NOW, will be available on December 10.

http://mhpbooks.com/wwdn.html

The project is the result of a round-the-clock effort that saw Howard Dean, Donna Brazile, Greg Palast, Lewis Lapham, Nicholas Kristof and others working through the Thanksgiving holiday to write a series of passionate manifestos outlining a variety of new ideas for life in a post-11/2 world. The result is a powerful collection that also features economists environmentalists, media critics, feminists, anti-war activists, novelists, poets and satirists writing about what to do in their key areas of expertise......"END SNIP

A little snip from Dean's part:

SNIP..."Here are the opening paragraphs from Dean's comments from a poster at Kos last week:
SNIP..."Americans are a people unique in the world for their optimism, their faith, their ability to hope, and their belief that they can control their own fates. We are a relatively young country, uncynical by international standards, and though we've often been labeled by others as naïve, our capacity for hope and faith and optimism has also made us a magnet for people seeking hope and faith and control over their lives from all over the globe.

It horrifies me to see this strength of ours being squandered. It saddens me immeasurably to see the American spirit bending under the load of nonsense that passes for politics. It frightens me, too. I truly believe that much of America's power in the world comes from the fact that for so long, we've been able to inspire dreams of a better future in people around the world. Our source of power has been not our ability to bomb whole cities into oblivion, but our ability to peacefully captivate people's hearts and minds. It seemed to me that if we were failing to generate this power at home, then there was no way we could continue to do so overseas. The result was that we were seriously at risk of becoming a weak, second-rate nation."

Others
Howard Dean, Donna Brazile, and Greg Palast on voting reform ...
· Lewis Lapham and Nicholas Kristof on how to re-organize the Democratic
Party ...
· Harper's Magazine publisher John R. MacArthur on supporting labor by
fighting free trade
· Tax attorney Maud Newton (famous, by the way, for her literary
website) on tax reform...
· Biologist Sandra Steingraber on renewing the fight for the
environment...
· Martha Nussbaum on improving international relations...
· Cass Sunstein and Jamin Raskin on court reform...
· Columbia history professor Eric Foner on keeping a historical
perspective ...

[DireStrike]

1. Amazon is a red company.

So it might be worth some extra cash to not support them.

Don't take my word for it though - check buyblue.org or whatever site you like.

[madfloridian]

2. Oh, darn, I thought it was Barnes and Nobles who was red.

I ordered from the publisher to support their good work.

[DireStrike]

3. What surprises me is that

this book came out on 12/10, and the first I heard about it was yesterday!

[madfloridian]

4. I know, it is very weird. It was publicized the 1st of Dec, then nothing.

It looks like such a powerful book with so many great people writing. When I get my book, I will share some more of the authors.

[madfloridian]

5. Another kick for a great progressive book which is getting no publicity.

Not at blogs, no links at any progressive blogs. Nowhere. I did see a link to the Melville page at Brazile's website.