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
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.
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The Nation: A Biography
(The First 150 Years)
Now available to download as a free e-book
The Nation: A Biography tells the surprising story behind America's oldest weekly magazine, instigator of progress since 1865—the bickering abolitionists who founded it; the campaigns, causes and controversies that shaped it; the rebels, mavericks and visionaries who have written, edited and fought in its pages for 150 years and counting.
The story of The Nation is also the story of our country—and our movement. Entertaining as well as inspiring, Guttenplan's history of The Nation is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand where we came from—and how to continue the march toward a radical future.
"Here's to The Nation on its 150th birthday," historian Eric Foner writes in the introduction. "This book makes clear why we should hope that the country's oldest weekly magazine survives for at least another century and a half."