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THEY ONLY LOOK DEAD: Why Progressives Will Dominate the Next Political Era
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The author of Why Americans Hate Politics pinpoints four concerns of Americans today--economics, politics, morality, and America's world role--arguing that Democratic incompetence is behind the current surge in Republican dominance and that progressive reform is the only answer. Reprint. NYT.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #1754287 in Books
- Published on: 1997-03-20
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 384 pages
Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com Review
Progressives everywhere, wake up and look alive! E. J. Dionne brings good news. Dionne analyzes the recent political chaos and concludes that it's due to Americans moving towards a New Progressive Era, not towards a New Right.
From Publishers Weekly
Despite the title, this book is less a contrarian projection of the future than a savvy if incomplete analysis of our current political landscape. Washington Post columnist Dionne (Why Americans Hate Politics) suggests that our current political chaos derives from multiple crises-of economics, politics, morality and our national purpose-with interesting parallels to upheavals the country faced in the late 19th century, culminating in the first Progressive era. And the "Anxious Middle"-the swing group in elections-is pandered to, says the author, by both parties. He goes on to suggest that President Clinton, even without his gaffes, would have faced intractable divisions within his party, that Newt Gingrich represents a new breed of technology-oriented conservatism and that journalism must adapt to promote a more serious level of debate. Dionne argues quite plausibly that the new conservatism will fail because it "seeks to define away" the problems we face, yet his vision of a new Progressivism ignores some practical steps, such as a move away from identity politics, that must presage such change. Author tour.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
The author of Why Americans Hate Politics (LJ 4/1/91) wants to know why the Democrats hate themselves so much that they brought about the Republican victory through their own failure to govern.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
