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Democracy in Print
The Best of The Progressive Magazine,
1909–2009
Edited by Matthew Rothschild
From Addams to Zinn, a century of voices speaking out on war, peace, human rights, labor, and democracy
“From these pieces one gets a sense of the vigor of the left’s past. . . . and its perennial relevance to American life.”
—Publishers Weekly
Democracy in Print captures many of the most influential voices from a
century of United States history who have spoken out on the struggle to make real the promise of democracy for all Americans, railed against abuses of corporate power, renounced American empire, championed environmental causes, opposed war, and waged peace. It chronicles voices of the women’s rights movement, the civil rights movement, the labor movement, and the gay rights movement. And on every page it declares the importance of an independent media by culling the best of The Progressive magazine over the last one hundred years.
Readers will discover the vision of the magazine’s founder, Robert “Fighting Bob” La Follette, and his suffragist wife, Belle Case La Follette. They’ll find historic gems from the likes of Jane Addams, Carl Sandburg, Huey Long, and John Kenneth Galbraith, and profound essays by Theodore Dreiser, Barbara Ehrenreich, Noam Chomsky, Upton Sinclair, Arundhati Roy, James Baldwin, Edwidge Danticat, and Edward Said. The collection is leavened with humor from Kate Clinton, Will Durst, Michael Feldman, and Molly Ivins, and graced by poems from such writers as Mahmoud Darwish, Rita Dove, Martín Espada, Maxine Kumin, Adrienne Rich, and Sandra Cisneros. Fascinating interviews bring readers into conversations with
prominent cultural figures, including Chuck D, the Dalai Lama, Allen Ginsberg, Amy Goodman, Harold Pinter, Patti Smith, Susan Sarandon, Desmond Tutu, and Yevgeny Yevtushenko.
Eminently browsable, this book is for anyone concerned with American democracy, the global community, and the perils of the planet. With contributions by actors and Supreme Court justices, comedians and Nobel Prize winners, Democracy in Print offers all readers nourishing food for thought.
“For a century, The Progressive has drawn on great thinkers and writers to envision a better world. Democracy in Print reminds us of the wrongs that have been righted and the challenges that remain.”
—Senator Bernie Sanders
 Matthew Rothschild is editor of
The Progressive magazine and host of Progressive Radio, a weekly public affairs program syndicated nationally. He is author of You Have No Rights: Stories of America in an Age of Repression.
• The Progressive celebrates its 100th birthday May 1–2, 2009
• Visit The Progressive website
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May 2009
LC: 2008046312 JK
390 pp. 7 x 9 1/2
A sampling of voices included:
Jane Addams
Hanan Ashrawi
James Baldwin
Philip Berrigan
Hugo Black
George Carlin
Helen Caldicott
Noam Chomsky
Chuck D
The Dalai Lama
Edwidge Danticat
Mahmoud Darwish
William O. Douglas
Rita Dove
Theodore Dreiser
Barbara Ehrenreich
Martín Espada
Senator Russ Feingold
John Kenneth Galbraith
Eduardo Galeano
Allen Ginsberg
Sam Hamill
Jim Hightower
Molly Ivins
Zia Jaffrey
June Jordan
Murray Kempton
Martin Luther King Jr.
Huey Long
Bill Moyers
Ralph Nader
Gaylord Nelson
Sister Helen Prejean
Adrienne Rich
Arundhati Roy
Bertrand Russell
Edward Said
Susan Sarandon
Upton Sinclair
Patti Smith
I. F. Stone
Norman Thomas
Leo Tolstoy
Alice Walker
Paul Wellstone
Kurt Vonnegut
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Howard Zinn
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