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Title: The Conscience of a Liberal: Reclaiming the Compassionate Agenda by Paul David Wellstone ISBN: 0679462945 Publisher: Random House Pub. Date: 15 May, 2001 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.12
Rating: 5
Summary: A great book by one of the greatest senators of our time!!
Comment: This book chronicles the political life of Senator Paul Wellstone (D-Minnesota), a progressive liberal, New Deal-type senator that is a rare breed in today's "New Democrat" politics. It started with how he got started his political career as a grassroot organizer in a rural Minnesota county, his first Senate election in 1990, which he won despite the fact that he raised very little money and was labeled a lost cause by the Democratic party establishment, and then went on to describe his senate career, which he described as more "playing defense to the Republican attacks" than playing offense and pushing for new progressive initiatives (such as a national health insurance program), because such programs are not going to be supported even within today's Democratic party. He then proposed that to create a new progressive majority and to enact progressive policies, we have to elect new progressive politicians, which have to be backed up by grassroots organizing directed toward the democrats constituencies, both old (labor unions) and new (recent immigrants). It is sad that Wellstone would never see the reemergence of the Progressives, because of his untimely dead last month. It is the job of us as Progressive Democrats to make his dreams come true and to build a new America based on Progressive policies.
Rating: 5
Summary: Wellstone in 2002!
Comment: After reading this book and listening to Senator Wellstone speak I have realized that things can be changed and we as citizens can take back the power from the corporations and the super rich. Mr. Wellstone is right on when he says that most people are socially liberal, but vote the other way over just one issue (we know what that is!) He was going to receive my vote before I read the book, but now he is not only getting my vote, I am helping volunteer for his campaign.
Rating: 5
Summary: remembering Paul
Comment: The other morning on one of the Sunday chat shows, a so-called "objective" political pundit referred to the late Senator as "a far-out liberal" with "extreme ideas." Is this how far we have fallen under Bush II? Is it "far-out" to believe that people are more important than profits? Is it "extreme" to feel that the American government should belong to the American people and not multinational corporations? Is the belief that, to quote populist commentator Jim Hightower, "everybody does better when everybody does better" just a naive, "liberal" pipe dream? Wellstone understood, as perhaps no other U.S. Senator does, that the main reason why the 2000 presidential election was so close was that voters accurately failed to discern much difference between centrist Bush and centrist Gore. Senator Wellstone was different, God bless him. Not only did he actually believe what he said, he acted on those beliefs, opinion polls be damned. The greatest tribute those of us who still believe in a just and fair American can pay to him is not just to read this book--although it's a start. We must now organize and run for office ourselves in order to restore democratic ideals to the Democratic party and to the White House. May this be Paul Wellstone's legacy.
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Title: Professor Wellstone Goes to Washington: The Inside Story of a Grassroots U.S. Senate Campaign by Dennis J. McGrath, Dane Smith ISBN: 0816626626 Publisher: Univ of Minnesota Pr (Trd) Pub. Date: April, 1995 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Blinded by the Right: The Conscience of an Ex-Conservative by David Brock ISBN: 0812930991 Publisher: Crown Pub Pub. Date: 05 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: The Emerging Democratic Majority by John B. Judis, Ruy Teixeira ISBN: 0743226917 Publisher: Scribner Pub. Date: 27 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: It's Still the Economy, Stupid: George W. Bush, The GOP's CEO by Paul Begala ISBN: 0743246470 Publisher: Simon & Schuster (Paper) Pub. Date: November, 2002 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: What Liberal Media? The Truth About Bias and the News by Eric Alterman ISBN: 0465001769 Publisher: Basic Books Pub. Date: 04 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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