[bksvol-discuss] Submitted/nonfiction
- From: "Deborah Murray" <blinkeeblink@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2012 18:04:33 -0400
Hi all,
I've just submitted for proofing "Hopeless: Barack Obama and the Politics of
Illusion" edited by Jeffrey St. Clair and Joshua Frank.
It's been read and spell-checked. Headers stripped, page numbers/chapter
titles present, text/headings formatted. 329 pages and just a few footnotes.
From the book cover:
The election of Barack Obama sparked long-dormant tingles of optimism in
even the most entrenched political cynics. But the promise of an Obama
revolution fizzled out even before his inauguration, as the
president-in-waiting stocked his cabinet with corporate hacks, cut secret
deals with Wall Street titans and plotted a bloody escalation of the
senseless war in Afghanistan. Here is a scathing indictment of the Obama
presidency from the best writers on the American Left. Hopeless is a view
of Obama's policies from the trenches: the compromises, the backstabbing,
the same old imperial ambitions. From Obama's sell-outs to big oil and the
nuclear industry to his continuation of savage Bush-era policies in the
CIA's global network of secret prisons, this fast-paced chronicle will
outrage the politically naive, delight the critical and inspire those
looking for an alternative to the dismal politics of lesser evilism. As
Emma Goldman famously quipped, "If voting changed anything, they'd make it
illegal. " Let this book stand as a painful reminder to those who think
anything less than social struggle will net tangible gain.
Deborah
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