Being Right Is Not Enough

What Progressives Can Learn from Conservative Success

Paul Waldman

• Publisher: Trade Paper Press
• Year: 2008
• Print ISBN: 9780471789604
• eBook ISBN: 9780470362839
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Conservatism & Liberalism
• Index: Politics & International Relations

"Waldman's book is terrific-good sense mustered with evidence, well argued, and sharply written to boot. I agree fervently with almost everything he writes. This is the indispensable book for the 2006 elections."
--Todd Gitlin, author of The Sixties and The Twilight of Common Dreams"A well-sourced, partisan blueprint for undoing Republican control of the nation."
--Publishers Weekly"Here's the ticket for Democrats to get back in power: read this book, understand what it means to be a true American progressive, expose conservatives as the mean elitists they are, get tough, and fight back. Nobody paints the strengths of progressives and the weaknesses of conservatives like Paul Waldman."
--Bill Press, author How the Republicans Stole Christmas"With clarity and passion, Paul Waldman demonstrates persuasively that the forces of the right have not 'taken over the country, ' as the media often lazily put it. They've only taken over politics. That can be reversed, and Waldman shows exactly how."
--Michael Tomasky, Editor, the American Prospect

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• 1 Returning Fire
• 2 Beyond Red and Blue
• 3 A Progressive Country
• 4 Knowing Who You Are
• 5 Say It Like You Mean It
• 6 Telling the Story
• 7 Manipulating the Media for Fun and Profit
• 8 Thinking Big
• 9 Time to Get Tough
• 10 The Progressive Moment
• Acknowledgements
• Notes
• Index