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Why We're Liberals by Eric Alterman

Why We’re Liberals

A Handbook for Restoring America’s Most Important Ideals

A Handbook for Restoring America’s Most Important Ideals

By Eric Alterman

By Eric Alterman

By Eric Alterman

By Eric Alterman

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    About Why We’re Liberals

    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.

    About Why We’re Liberals

    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.

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    About Eric Alterman

    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

    About Eric Alterman

    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

    Product Details

    Category: Domestic Politics

    Paperback | $17.00
    Published by Penguin Books
    Feb 24, 2009 | 416 Pages | 5-1/2 x 8-7/16 | ISBN 9780143115229

    Category: Domestic Politics

    Ebook | $4.99
    Published by Penguin Books
    Mar 13, 2008 | 416 Pages | ISBN 9781101202906

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    Praise

    “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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