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An Unauthorized Tour of the Populist Revolt Scaring Wall Street and Washington
Crown
June 2008
On Sale: May 27, 2008
400 pages
ISBN: 0307395634
EAN: 9780307395634
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
An All-Access Pass to the Populist
Insurrection Brewing Across the Country Job outsourcing. Perpetual busy signals at government
agencies. Slashed paychecks. Stolen elections. A war without
end, fatally mismanaged. Ordinary Americans on both the
Right and Left are tired of being disenfranchised by corrupt
politicians of both parties and are organizing to change the
status quo. In his invigorating new book, David Sirota
investigates whether this uprising can be transformed into a
unified, lasting political movement. Throughout the course of American history, uprisings like
the one we are seeing now have given birth to powerful
movements to end wars, protect workers, and expand civil
rights, so the prospect of today’s uprising turning into a
full-fledged populist movement terrifies Wall Street and
Washington. In The Uprising, Sirota takes us far from the
national media spotlight into the trenches where real change
is happening—from the headquarters of the most powerful
third party in America to the bowels of the U.S. Senate;
from the auditorium of an ExxonMobil shareholder meeting to
the quasi-military staging area of a vigilante force on the
Mexican border. This is vital, on-the-ground reporting that
immerses us in the tumultuous give-and-take of politics at
its most personal. Sirota also offers a biting critique of our politics. He
shows how the uprising is, at its core, a reaction to faux
“bipartisanship” in the nation’s capital—the
“bipartisanship” whereby Republican and Democratic lawmakers
join together in putting the agenda of corporate interests
above all those of ordinary citizens. Ultimately, Sirota reminds us that the Declaration of
Independence, “America’s original uprising manifesto,” says
that governments “derive their powers from the consent of
the governed.” Irreverent and insightful, The Uprising shows
how the governed have stopped consenting and have started
taking action.
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