The Next Republic
The Rise of a New Radical Majority
"It’s high time that someone resurrected authentic “populism,” activism from below, and showed how it can be the path to a better future. That’s done very convincingly in D.D. Guttenplan's fine book, The Next Republic: The Rise of a New Radical Majority, introducing us along the way to some wonderful people and their achievements, interspersed with carefully executed and pertinent historical interludes. A timely and instructive call to action."
—Noam Chomsky
"At a moment when history and truth are under attack, and the survival of our republic is once again in doubt, The Next Republic is a timely, humane and forceful narrative of our insurgent political moment — and a deeply reported contribution to the fight for a progressive future in America."
—Katrina vanden Heuvel, Editor & Publisher, The Nation
"Don Guttenplan has written a profoundly subversive book. At a moment when Trumpism, cynicism and corruption seem to reign supreme in our politics, he has made a compelling case for hope and optimism about the future of our democracy, and en passant he has put the meaning of our republic in its historical context."
—Victor S. Navasky
Who are the new progressive leaders emerging to lead the post-Trump return to democracy in America? National political correspondent and award-winning author D.D. Guttenplan's The Next Republic is an extraordinarily intense and wide-ranging account of the recent fall and incipient rise of democracy in America. The Next Republic profiles seven successful activists who are changing the course of American history right now:
• new labor activist and author Jane McAlevey
• racial justice campaigner (and mayor of Jackson, Mississippi) Chokwe Antar Lumumba
• environmental activist (and newly elected chair of the Nebraska Democratic Party) Jane Kleeb
• Chicago’s first openly gay Latino elected official Carlos Ramirez-Rosa
• #ALLOFUS co-founder Waleed Shahid and Corbin Trent, co-founder of Brand New Congress and Justice Democrats. Two of the young architects of Bernie Sanders's amazing rise
• and author and anti-corruption crusader Zephyr Teachout.
Like a cross between George Packer's The Unwinding and John F. Kennedy's Profiles in Courage, The Next Republic is both unyielding and deeply hopeful, the first book to come out of the Trump ascendency that stakes a claim for seeing beyond it.