How the Left Can Win Arguments and Influence People: A Tactical Manual for Pragmatic Progressives

John K. Wilson. New York University Press, $21 (268pp) ISBN 978-0-8147-9363-3

The author of The Myth of Political Correctness: The Conservative Attack on Higher Education and Newt Gingrich: Capitol Crimes and Misdemeanors, John K. Wilson issues a call for ""tactical radicalism"": the left, which, he avers, suffered mightily under Clinton's centrist leadership, must effectively mobilize itself and become as well-oiled and fully entrenched a political machine as the right. With candor, humor and pith, Wilson's How the Left Can Win Arguments and Influence People: A Tactical Manual for Pragmatic Progressives upholds the premise that, first and foremost, the U.S. is a country founded on progressivism. ( Aug. 15)

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