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The Change I Believe In: Fighting for Progress in the Age of Obama
On the night of the 2008 presidential election, Nation editor Katrina vanden Heuvel spoke for "For the first time in decades, electoral politics became a vehicle for raising expectations and spreading hope." But, she cautioned, "We progressives need to be as clear-eyed, tough, and pragmatic about Obama as he is about us."
Where I Stand collects vanden Heuvel's commentaries and columns from the first years of the Obama administration, an era that has come to be defined by reform and reaction. In the wake of the economic crisis and challenges from the insurgent Tea Party movement, it is clear that it will take more than one election (and one person) to reshape American politics and repair the damage wreaked by a decade of calamitous conservative rule.
Vanden Heuvel challenges the limits of our downsized political debate, arguing that timid incrementalism and the forces of money and establishment power that debilitate American politics will be overcome only by independent organizing, strategic creativity, bold ideas, and determined idealism.
Where I Stand collects vanden Heuvel's commentaries and columns from the first years of the Obama administration, an era that has come to be defined by reform and reaction. In the wake of the economic crisis and challenges from the insurgent Tea Party movement, it is clear that it will take more than one election (and one person) to reshape American politics and repair the damage wreaked by a decade of calamitous conservative rule.
Vanden Heuvel challenges the limits of our downsized political debate, arguing that timid incrementalism and the forces of money and establishment power that debilitate American politics will be overcome only by independent organizing, strategic creativity, bold ideas, and determined idealism.
- GenresPolitics
384 pages, Paperback
First published October 1, 2011
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About the author
Katrina Vanden Heuvel
34 books11 followersDutch-American liberal Journalist and co-owner of the leftwing magazine "The Nation"
Vandenheuvel is married to the Soviet Union expert Stephen Cohen.
She received an Planned Parenthood reward for an article on feminism in the Soviet Union and was an editor of a Russian based feminist magazine.
Vandenheuvel is also an blogger on the Huffington Post.
Vandenheuvel is married to the Soviet Union expert Stephen Cohen.
She received an Planned Parenthood reward for an article on feminism in the Soviet Union and was an editor of a Russian based feminist magazine.
Vandenheuvel is also an blogger on the Huffington Post.
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April 12, 2012
I started reading this book to try to understand how Obama supporters feel after 4 years of Obama and I have to say this was very unhelpful. The author, a supposed journalist for a Washington paper kept starting her 'columns', a collection of them, on the basis of news and then ending in the same platitudes without any type of examination and what is more irksome, no foreword at all on how those columns connect or any type of summation. I never finished reading it. It was too erratic.
September 13, 2016
A quick read of a collection of columns that appear in The Nation magazine. The subtitle is "Fighting for Progress in the Age of Obama." In each topic, you have a chronological grouping of columns by vanden Heuvel. She gets a little wonky at times, but a good read for a progressive.
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