From the Back Cover
""Waldman's book is terrific-good sense mustered with evidence, well argued, and sharply written to boot. I agree fervently with almost everything he writes. This is the indispensable book for the 2006 elections.""
--Todd Gitlin, author of ""The Sixties and The Twilight of Common Dreams""
""A well-sourced, partisan blueprint for undoing Republican control of the nation.""
--""Publishers Weekly""
""Here's the ticket for Democrats to get back in power: read this book, understand what it means to be a true American progressive, expose conservatives as the mean elitists they are, get tough, and fight back. Nobody paints the strengths of progressives and the weaknesses of conservatives like Paul Waldman.""
--Bill Press, author ""How the Republicans Stole Christmas""
""With clarity and passion, Paul Waldman demonstrates persuasively that the forces of the right have not 'taken over the country, ' as the media often lazily put it. They've only taken over politics. That can be reversed, and Waldman shows exactly how.""
--Michael Tomasky, Editor, the ""American Prospect""
PAUL WALDMAN is a Senior Fellow at Media Matters for America, and a founder of gadflyer.com. His writing has also been featured in the "American Prospect," "The Washington Post," "The Washington Monthly," and "Salon.com," as well as many scholarly journals.