This Week: The Legacy of the Dean Campaign
Welcome to TPMCafe's Book Club table. This week we're hosting a discussion on Garrett M. Graff's new book, The First Campaign: Globalization, the Web, and the Race for the White House, and Zephyr Teachout and Thomas Streeter's Mousepads, Shoe Leather, and Hope: Lessons from the Howard Dean Campaign for the Future of Internet Politics.
In his book, Graff, webmaster on Howard Dean's 2004 campaign, explains how technology and globalization are transforming both the form and the substance of American political discourse, and challenges politicians and parties to embrace the politics of the twenty first century. In their new book, Zephyr Teachout and Thomas Streeter discuss the revolutionary impact of Dean's campaign and share contributions from a number of Dean staffers.
Also participating in this week's Book Club will be Jerome Armstrong, Zack Exley and Aldon Hynes, all of whom contributed to Teachout and Streeter's book, as well as Tom Swan, manager of Ned Lamont's 2006 senatorial campaign.
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, Greg Anrig, Jr., Matt Bai, Katha Pollitt, and Michael Shellenberger, Ted Nordhaus, Daniel Brook, Paul Krugman, Susan Faludi, Michael Levi and Ethan Brown.
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