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Feb 24, 2009 | ISBN 9780143115229 Buy
Mar 13, 2008 | ISBN 9781101202906 Buy
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Feb 24, 2009 | ISBN 9780143115229
Mar 13, 2008 | ISBN 9781101202906
The bestselling author and Newsweek columnist takes a characteristically irreverent look at the rampant mistreatment of liberals and liberalism The “most honest and incisive media critic writing today”(National Catholic Reporter), Eric Alterman is committed to restoring the liberal tradition to its honored place as the political philosophy of mainstream American citizens. In this bracing and well-documented counterattack on right- wing spin and misinformation, Alterman briskly disposes of the canards and false definitions that have been foisted upon liberals by the right and have been accepted unquestioningly by nearly everyone else. The perfect post-election book for all those who are ready to fight back against the conservative mudslinging machine and reclaim their voices in the political process, Why We’re Liberals brings clarity and perspective to the possibility of a new day in America.
Eric Alterman, media columnist for The Nation, is a distinguished professor of English and journalism at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York, a senior fellow of the Center for American Progress, and the “Altercation” weblogger for MSNBC.com…. More about Eric Alterman
“It is difficult to imagine anyone better qualified to update Arthur Schlesinger Jr.’s notion of liberalism as the ‘vital center’ of American politics.”–The New York Times “A vigorous defense of liberalism as a credo-a credo, Alterman argues persuasively, that most Americans actually subscribe to.” –The Atlantic
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