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The Next Republic
  • Published: 18 October 2018
  • ISBN: 9781609808563
  • Imprint: Seven Stories Press
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 240
  • RRP: $55.00

The Next Republic

The Rise of a New Radical Majority

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2 Oct 2018
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18 Oct 2018
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A book for this moment: Both an assessment of our current political leadership and a vision of those who can bring substantive change.

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 nine 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 public official Carlos Ramirez-Rosa
• #ALLOFUS co-founder Waleed Shahid
• young architects of Bernie Sanders amazing rise, digerati Corbin Trent and Zack Exley, founders of Brand New Congress
• 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.
  • Published: 18 October 2018
  • ISBN: 9781609808563
  • Imprint: Seven Stories Press
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 240
  • RRP: $55.00
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About the authors

D. Guttenplan

Throughout the 2015–16 election season, D.D. GUTTENPLAN set the highest standard for election reporting, traveling across the country throughout the primary season, attending the major speeches and rallies of all the candidates, offering deep as well as topical coverage in dozens of articles including many that graced The Nation magazine’s cover. Guttenplan’s first book, The Holocaust on Trial, was highly praised by Ian Baruma in the New Yorker as “a mixture of superb reportage and serious reflection.” He is also the author of The Next Republic: The Rise of a New Radical Majority, and his biography of I. F. Stone, American Radical: The Life and Times of I. F. Stone, won the Sperber Prize for Biography. Guttenplan wrote and presented two radio documentaries for the BBC, Guns: An American Love Affair and War, Lies and Audiotape, about the Gulf of Tonkin incident. He also produced an acclaimed film, Edward Said: The Last Interview. A former editor at Vanity Fair, senior editor at the Village Voice, and media columnist at New York Newsday, Guttenplan’s reporting on the Happy Land Social Club fire in the Bronx won a Page One Award from the New York Newspaper Guild. He was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for his investigative reporting on New York City’s fire code. In 2019, Guttenplan became the editor of The Nation magazine. He lives in New York City and Vermont in the US and in London, England.
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Praise for The Next Republic

"A mixture of superb reportage and serious reflection about the role of Jewish identity politics in the United States, anti-Semitism in Britain, and the historiography of the Cold War." --Ian Buruma, praising The Holocaust on Trial in The New Yorker

"A mixture of superb reportage and serious reflection about the role of Jewish identity politics in the United States, anti-Semitism in Britain, and the historiography of the Cold War." --Ian Buruma, praising The Holocaust on Trial in The New Yorker