Overview
Every four years Americans hold a presidential election. Somebody wins and somebody loses. That's life. But 2008 was an anomaly. The election of President Barack Obama is about something far bigger than four or even eight years in the White House. Since 2004, Americans have been witnessing and participating in the emergence of a Democratic majority that will last not four but forty years. To understand the emergence of a lasting Democratic majority, James Carville first reviews the profound and relentless incompetence of the Bush administration--and the pursuant collapse of the Republican Party. That means looking back at the failure of Republican ideas--including a wholesale rejection of the myth of conservative superiority on the economy--and holding our noses long enough to survey the gallery of truly repellent scoundrels, scandals, and screwups that the Republican Party has been responsible for over the last eight years. After completing the unpleasant but edifying task of autopsying the Republican Party, Carville examines the underpinnings of Democratic victories in 2004, 2006, and 2008--and makes the argument for why Democrats are going to keep winning (two words: young people). In short, the Republicans are going to keep getting spanked again and again for forty more years because we're right and they're wrong, and Americans know it.
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Author: James Carville ,
Rebecca Buckwalter-Poza ,
Alan Sklar
Publisher: Tantor Audio
Imprint: Tantor Audio
ISBN: 9798200119264
Publication Date: 04 June 2009
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Format: Audio
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
"No one does partisanship better than the Ragin' Cajun.... Professor Carville's class is now in session.-- ""Time"" ""Carville does not pull punches in this aggressive manifesto...Compelling."" -- ""Publishers Weekly"" ""Multiple Audie Award winner Alan Sklar perfectly voices Carville's verbal snarl. Where sarcasm is called for, Sklar provides it; where snarkiness is needed, Sklar oozes it in abundance."" -- ""Library Journal (starred review)"" ""No one does partisanship better than the Ragin' Cajun...Professor Carville's class is now in session."" -- ""Time"""
Author Information
James Carville is one of the best-known and most-loved political consultants in American history. He is also a speaker, talk-show host, actor, and author with six New York Times bestsellers to his credit, including All's Fair: Love, War, and Running for President and We're Right, They're Wrong: A Handbook for Spirited Progressives. James lives with his wife, Mary Matalin, and their two daughters in New Orleans. Rebecca Buckwalter-Poza majored in government at Harvard University, where she was senior editor of the Harvard International Review and director of the Commission on the Status of Women for the Model United Nations. She has interned in the office of former Clinton adviser James Carville, worked as a polling and targeting analyst for the 2008 presidential election at Campaign to Defend America, and served as deputy press secretary for the Democratic National Committee. Alan Sklar, a graduate of Dartmouth, has excelled in his career as a freelance voice actor. Named a Best Voice of 2009 by AudioFile magazine, his work has earned him several Earphones Awards, a Booklist Editors' Choice Award (twice), a Publishers Weekly Listen-Up Award, and Audiobook of the Year by ForeWord magazine. He has also narrated thousands of corporate videos for clients such as NASA, Sikorsky Aircraft, IBM, Dannon, Pfizer, AT&T, and SONY.
