This Week: The Argument
Perhaps you thought "The Argument" was a feature at TPMCafe's Book Club every week. That may be so, but this week we are striving for a treat of convergence with Matt Bai's new book, The Argument: Billionaires, Bloggers, and the Battle to Remake Democratic Politics.
In his book, Bai examines another special convergence. Many signs point to the apparent inevitability of further political gains by the Democratic party in 2008, but Bai contends that the party still struggles with the same structural deficiencies it has always been blamed for.
Joining Bai in the discussion will be Michael Schellenberger, Kenneth Baer, Joan McCarter, Mark Schmitt, Todd Gitlin, and Ed Kilgore. (If you remember, TPMtv interviewed Bai and McCarter as part of our coverage of YearlyKos in August).
Previous Book Club discussions have covered the work of Thomas Frank, Anthony Shadid, Larry Diamond, George Packer, Ivo Daalder/James Lindsay, Robert Dreyfuss, Chris Mooney, Gene Sperling, Gershom Gorenberg, Peter Beinart, Kevin Phillips, Sidney Blumenthal, Reed Hundt, Anne-Marie Slaughter, John Ikenberry, Jonathan Cohn, Daniel Gross, Steven Cook, Chris Hayes, Josh Kurlantzick, Glenn Greenwald, Todd Gitlin, Jonathan Chait, and Greg Anrig, Jr.
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