Blue Grit: True Democrats Take Back Politics from the Politicians - Hardcover

Flanders, Laura

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1594201137 ISBN 13: 9781594201134

Publisher: Penguin Press HC, The, 2007

Synopsis

Argues that the lines between blue and red political belief systems are not as cut and dried as popularly believed, identifying unexpected regions in the country where progressive changes are taking place while making provocative observations about the real reasons why people vote Republican, in a survey that outlines an incisive strategy for future Democratic wins. By the author of Bushwomen and The W Effect.

About this title

About the Author:

Laura Flanders hosts her own weekly radio show on Air America. She is the author of Bushwomen: How They Won the White House for Their Man, Real Majority, Media Minority: The Costs of Sidelining Women in Reporting, and the editor of The W Effect: Sexual Politics in the Bush Years and Beyond.

Review:

Blue Grit is a clarion call to progressive voters looking for a new direction. While many pundits continue to argue that the Democratic Party must race to the center in a desperate attempt to win back the White House, Flanders offers a compelling analysis of the strength of the modern progressive movement in America, showing us that the Democratic Party must not abandon its core progressive values and ideals, but capitalize on them to win. -- Donna Brazile

Blue Grit is pure political tonic, a stirring call-to-arms for progressives who feel they've been left out in the cold by their alleged allies. Laura Flanders offers a galvanizing vision of political democracy as it was meant to thrive: in the lives and stories of ordinary Americans. -- Michael Eric Dyson, author of Debating Race

In Blue Grit, Laura Flanders throws a verbal hand grenade into the Democratic 2006 election celebration. She makes it clear that Liberals are as unhappy with the Democratic Party as Conservatives are with the GOP. It seems to me that something important, maybe even historic is stirring in the political arena-stay tuned. -- Richard A. Viguerie

Laura Flanders is a star burst of optimism -- people need that -- and Blue Grit is the perfect vehicle for spreading her message. Politics can be fun again AND progressive goals can succeed. There is a new crowd moving in on tired old politicians and they are stirring up a hopeful new politics. -- William Greider

Laura Flanders' Blue Grit gives hope even to those of us who don't ordinarily go in for that sort of thing. -- Fran Lebowitz

With her usual daring, flair and down home investigative style, Laura Flanders travels America and finds the progressive grassroots movement alive and kicking. Her book, Blue Grit, asks who owns the Democratic Party, "the people in the suites or the people in the streets." It is a crucial question, and this book is crucial reading." -- Eve Ensler

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Press HC, The
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1594201137
• ISBN 13: 9781594201134
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240