[bksvol-discuss] Submission/nonfiction
- From: "Deborah Murray" <blinkeeblink@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "BookShare" <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 12:49:56 -0400
Hi all,
I've just submitted for validation The Uprising: An Unauthorized Tour of the
Populist Revolt Scaring Wall Street and Washington by David Sirota
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[From the book jacket[
n All-Access Pass to the Populist Insurrection Brewing Across the Country
Job outsourcing. Perpetual busy signals at government agencies. Slashed
paychecks. Stolen elections. A war without end, fatally mismanaged. Ordinary
Americans on both the Right and Left are tired of being disenfranchised by
corrupt politicians of both parties and are organizing to change the status
quo. 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 of
the 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 their
powers from the consent of the governed." Irreverent and insightful, The
Uprising shows how the governed have stopped consenting and have started
taking action.
Deborah
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