Synopses & Reviews
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"Sirota has insider access to major players and has fun critiquing politicians' genuflecting to populist sentiment to garner votes." Rocky Mountain News
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"After so many decades of fake populism of revolts by the wealthy, red-state fantasies, and stock-picking grandmas could we finally be looking at the real thing? In this compelling book, rooted in history but as contemporary as this morning's newspaper, David Sirota gives us reason to hope." Thomas Frank, author of What's the Matter with Kansas? and The Wrecking Crew
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"David Sirota is honest, uncompromising, passionate, and a brilliant communicator. He is the most important progressive voice we have in this country. The Uprising should be read by anyone who wants to understand exactly how the ordinary person has been sold out by the political system." Matt Taibbi, national political correspondent for Rolling Stone and author of The Great Derangement
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"This book engages in the nearly lost art of reporting to tell us what's going on in the many places that the elite media can't be bothered to look. It chronicles just how fed up Americans have become, and nominates a few heroes for them to turn to: that great senator Bernie Sanders, or the activist nun Pat Daly, for instance. It cheered me a good deal to read how many Americans are finally starting to fight back against the rule of greed that has been our lot for too many years." Bill McKibben, author of Deep Economy and The Bill McKibben Reader
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"With a historian's and a journalist's storytelling gifts, David Sirota describes the populist tide that so many elites fear and ignore at all our peril: multinational corporations that rip off local communities as if they were resource colonies, a national security state that manipulates our young to bleed for that same empire, and a political elite more concerned with preserving its power than empowering citizens to become self-governing. Since leaving the Beltway behind, David Sirota has become a must-read chronicler in the populist tradition." Tom Hayden, author of The Tom Hayden Reader and Ending the War in Iraq
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"A disparate collection of tales about Americans fighting against the economic and political tide that Sirota never succeeds in drawing together to make a compelling case that the populist uprising is upon us." Kirkus Reviews