Research Catalog

Title

The argument : billionaires, bloggers, and the battle to remake Democratic politics / Matt Bai.

Author

Bai, Matt.

Publication

New York : Penguin Press, 2007.

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Details

Description

xvi, 316 pages; 25 cm

Summary

"Great political movements need more than a bunch of shared principles; they need an argument. The New Dealers had one. So did the Goldwater conservatives. So what's the progressive argument? What new path are Democrats urging us to choose in the era of Wal-Mart, Al-Qaeda, and YouTube? New York Times Magazine writer Matt Bai goes in search of an answer in this surprising portrait of the turbulent new world of Democratic politics, where billionaires and bloggers battle politicians and consultants over the future of a once-great party." "While pundits obsess over who's up and who's down on Capitol Hill, the real action in Democratic politics is happening among the grass roots, where an emerging progressive movement - the first popular movement of the Internet age - is seizing power from the party's weakened Washington establishment. Bai gets deep inside this movement, penetrating a secret club of wealthy donors and following a group of other progressive power brokers - Howard Dean, the blogger Markos Moulitsas, the union chief Andy Stern, the leaders of MoveOn.org - as they vie with party leaders for control of a vastly changed Democratic landscape. What does it mean to be a Democrat seventy-five years after the New Deal, in a society transformed by the suburb, the Internet, and the mutual fund?"--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

• United States > Politics and government > 2001-2009
• Progressivism (United States politics)
• Democratic Party (U.S.)

Note

• Includes index.

Contents

1. Election day -- 2. The killer slide show -- 3. The thing -- 4. The power of the list -- 5. The road to dysfunction -- 6. Moments of destiny -- 7. The argument -- 8. Beyond the message object -- 9. Backward compatible -- 10. "They're not right about that" -- 11. Into the abyss -- 12. The kiss -- 13. Score!

ISBN

• 9781594201332
• 1594201331

LCCN

2007018536

OCLC

• 126226954
• SCSB-5362180

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries