The Changing Democratic Party
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My Life is the book that people will talk about for sometime to come. Former President Bill Clinton's memoir is a fascinating insight into his personal and political lives. One of his focuses included his experiences with the DLC and how New Democrat thinking propelled him to the presidency.
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Party of the People: History of the Democrats, as the DLC's Ed Kilgore has written, "should become required reading for Democratic thinkers and activists, who for all their energy and spirit, share the history-challenged handicap of their generation." A little historical perspective goes a long way.
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Crossroads: The Future of American Politics is a collection of essays, which lays out ideas on how to revitalize progressive politics. Edited by former HUD Secretary Andrew Cuomo, the book persuasively makes the case that "Democrats must realize the good fight is a fight." Excerpt
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The Emerging Democratic Majority, modeled after Kevin Phillps' prophetic book about the GOP decades ago, argues why Dems will eventually dominate politics for the foreseeable future. While Judis and Teixeira provide insightful and hopeful analysis, Dems still have a lot of work to do.
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The Natural is a great read about the beginnings of former President Clinton's New Democrat governing philosophy, along with the up's and down's of his administration. The author, Joe Klein, is a great political analyst who understood early what New Democrats are all about.
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America's Forgotten Majority says that Democrats will prosper politically by expanding government and demonizing entrenched corporate power. New Democrats reject this old constituency-group, neo-populist strategy for a message focused on opportunity, responsibility and community.
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Reinventing Democrats covers the crisis of the Democratic Party, the formation of the DLC, the movement's early years of controversy and growth, the 1992 Clinton-Gore campaign and the intellectual and political ferment stimulated here and abroad ever since.
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The Third Way and its Critics looks at a political movement that is rapidly gaining favor among progressive parties throughout the world. In Europe, Latin America, Australia, as well as in the United States and Great Britain, Third Way movements are taking hold. This book tells us why.
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Liberalism and Its Discontents says that traditional liberalism has been having a very hard time in the last 30 years. Even in its so-called heyday from the New Deal to the civil rights era, Brinkley contends that it was never nearly as strong as its advocates believed.
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Building the Bridge, the DLC's blueprint for the Clinton administration's second term, covers a very wide range of public policy challenges and solutions. This collection of essays, by some of the country's brightest thinkers, remains a useful playbook for New Democrat leaders and policymakers.
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They Only Look Dead demonstrates that America is not headed to the right and explains "why progressives will dominate the next political era." In this great work, Dionne shows how and why Americans are responding to crises in economics, politics, morality and nation's role in the world.
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The End of Reform studies the ideas and the people who shaped them during the New Deal. It details how this governing philosophy evolved during the war and challenges the notion that today's liberalism is the ideological heir of President Franklin Roosevelt's legacy.
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