My new book

Dear friends,

 

For the sake of our country and world, thank goodness Barack Obama won the election. Thanks to all of you for your hard work in making it happen.

 

There are so many reasons to be happy about this, but I actually have an extra one. I have a book scheduled to be released to bookstores on January 14^th, less than a week before the inauguration, that talks about the themes of the Obama campaign being the themes of historic progressivism, and predicting that we are headed into a new progressive era. Given that the book was actually written this spring and summer, it sure makes marketing it easier now that Obama has won.

 

The book is entitled The Progressive Revolution: How the Best In America Came To Be. It is about the history of the American political debate between progressives and conservatives dating back to 1776, and describes how our side won that debate, America moved forward- and when their side won, the country got messed up.

 

I have succeeded in getting great blurbs on the back from several wonderful friends, including Paul Begala, Donna Brazile, David Brock, Wes Boyd, Tom Daschle, Arianna Huffington, and David Sirota. I’ve also got a bunch of friendly organizations willing to send something out to their e-mail lists, and a bunch of friendly bloggers to help as well. The final piece of the marketing package is to get friends of mine (hint, hint) to co-sponsor book parties for me in cities around the country, so I’m sending this request around to friends of mine I’m targeting to see if they would be willing to co-host a party in their town. My plan would be to start traveling around the country doing these parties in the week after the Inaugural is over through March.

 

Here’s the downside: given that I am helping with the transition, and want to do quite a few parties, whichever folks agreed to help will need to plan this without a ton of logistical support from me or my staff in D.C. We will e-mail to our friends in your town, but won’t be able to spend a lot of time on the organizing end, so whoever agrees to help in a given place will be large and in charge.

 

E-mail me back if you are willing to help. I would, of course, understand if you can’t, but would be forever grateful if you can.

 

Warm regards,

Mike