Instant book: "What We Do Now"...Dean, Kristof, Brazile, Palast, more

[madfloridian]

Found at the blog:
The independent publisher Melville House (previously known for "Who Killed Daniel Pearl?" by Bernard-Henri Lévy) has just put together an "instant book" called WHAT WE DO NOW. The official release date is today.

WHAT WE DO NOW
edited by Dennis Loy Johnson and Valerie Merians
Price: $12 (paperback original) Pages: 203
ISBN: 0976140764

Here's a snippet from the description:

"The project is the result of a round-the-clock effort that saw Howard Dean, Donna Brazile, Greg Palast, Lewis Lapham, Nicholas Kristof and others working through the Thanksgiving holiday to write individual manifestos outlining a series of passionate new ideas for life in a post-11/2 world. The result is a powerful collection that also features economists, environmentalists, media critics, feminists, anti-war activists, poets and satirists writing about what to do in their key areas of expertise."

Here's a teaser from Howard's essay:

"Americans are a people unique in the world for their optimism, their faith, their ability to hope, and their belief that they can control their own fates. We are a relatively young country, uncynical by international standards, and though we've often been labeled by others as naïve, our capacity for hope and faith and optimism has also made us a magnet for people seeking hope and faith and control over their lives from all over the globe.

(This part brought tears, because I feel so bad about what we have done...we HAVE bombed whole cities into oblivion!)

"It horrifies me to see this strength of ours being squandered. It saddens me immeasurably to see the American spirit bending under the load of nonsense that passes for politics. It frightens me, too. I truly believe that much of America's power in the world comes from the fact that for so long, we've been able to inspire dreams of a better future in people around the world. Our source of power has been not our ability to bomb whole cities into oblivion, but our ability to peacefully captivate people's hearts and minds. It seemed to me that if we were failing to generate this power at home, then there was no way we could continue to do so overseas. The result was that we were seriously at risk of becoming a weak, second-rate nation."

Interested in a copy? Click.
http://store.yahoo.com/melvillehousebooks/whatwedonow.html

[Cha]

1. Dean wrote an awesome paragraph

in the "Instant Book" about how a Lot of us are feeling about our Country. I hope this gets widely read.

I just saw on my Roadrunner front page where "rhenquist is going to swear in" that idiot bush. And I'm living in the twilight zone.

[DeepModem Mom]

2. kick

[Gold Metal Flake]

3. Just ordered. Thanks! n/m

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