Sorry gang, I just got it.I had just finished a book and decided to get a new one: and this one was there. It sounds really interesting.
Bob----- Original Message ----- From: "Deborah Murray" <blinkeeblink@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "BookShare" <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2008 11:49 AM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Submission/nonfiction
Hi all,I've just submitted for validation The Uprising: An Unauthorized Tour of thePopulist Revolt Scaring Wall Street and Washington by David Sirota The usual pre-validation has been done--headers stripped, page numbers intact and chapter titles protected. K1000 ranked spelling over 99.7% [From the book jacket[ n All-Access Pass to the Populist Insurrection Brewing Across the Country Job outsourcing. Perpetual busy signals at government agencies. Slashedpaychecks. Stolen elections. A war without end, fatally mismanaged. OrdinaryAmericans on both the Right and Left are tired of being disenfranchised bycorrupt politicians of both parties and are organizing to change the statusquo. In his invigorating new book, David Sirota investigates whether this uprising can be transformed into a unified, lasting political movement. Throughout the course of American history, uprisings like the one we are seeing now have given birth to powerful movements to end wars, protect workers, and expand civil rights, so the prospect of today's uprising turning into a full- fledged populist movement terrifies Wall Street and Washington. In The Uprising, Sirota takes us far from the national media spotlight into the trenches where real change is happening- from the headquarters of the most powerful third party in America to the bowels ofthe U.S. Senate; from the auditorium of an ExxonMobil shareholder meeting to the quasi-military staging area of a vigilante force on the Mexican border.This is vital, on-the-ground reporting that immerses us in the tumultuous give-and- take of politics at its most personal. Sirota also offers a biting critique of our politics. He shows how the uprising is, at its core, a reaction to faux "bipartisanship" in the nation's capital-the "bipartisanship" whereby Republican and Democratic lawmakers join together in putting the agenda of corporate interests above all those of ordinary citizens. Ultimately, Sirota reminds us that the Declaration of Independence,"America's original uprising manifesto," says that governments "derive theirpowers from the consent of the governed." Irreverent and insightful, The Uprising shows how the governed have stopped consenting and have started taking action. Deborah To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxput the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.
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