The Practical Progressive: How to Build a Twenty-First Century Political Movement

by Erica Payne

Underneath today's elections is a fierce battle for power driven not by the country's elected officials, but by organizations and people you have never heard of. Since the 1964 Goldwater defeat,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1586487191
• ISBN13: 9781586487195
• Release Date: August 2008
• Publisher: PublicAffairs
• Length: 357 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 4.9" x 7.8"

Customer Reviews

Great book and excellent resource

Have you ever heard of the Kevin Bacon Six Degrees of Separation game? With Erica Payne's "The Practical Progressive: How to Build a Twenty-first Century Political Movement" as your handbook, you will be Two Degrees away from the infrastructure of change leadership within the Democratic movement. The book not only explains the fundamentals of a political movement's raw materials (philosophies, government role, economic theories, etc.) needed but also how those raw materials are more essential to actual change than any politician alone. Erica Payne assembled a committee of experts to determine which organizations are leading the effort in developing and marketing those raw materials and the book contains information on each. It's the Zagat's of progressive politics! Payne's book is a must for anyone in the Democratic party or interested in political change.