Job outsourcing. Perpetual busy signals at government agencies. Slashed paychecks. Stolen elections. A war without end, fatally mismanaged. Ordinary Americans on both the Right and Left have had it with Washington politicians who belong to what David Sirota calls "the Money Party" and are organizing to change the status quo. In his new book, Sirota investigates whether this uprising can be transformed into a unified political movement.
Sirota takes us far from the national media spotlight into the trenches, where real change is happening - from the headquarters of the most powerful third party in America to the bowels of the U.S. Senate; from the auditorium of an ExxonMobil shareholders meeting to the quasi-military staging area of a vigilante force on the Mexican border.
Sirota reminds us that the Declaration of Independence ("America's original uprising manifesto") says that governments "derive their powers from the consent of the governed." Irreverent, insightful, and invigorating, The Uprising is an adventure that shows how the governed have stopped consenting and started taking action.
In this polarized land of ours, a not-so-quiet grassroots dissident movement is at work. Its voices are heard amid established U.S. lawmakers, in the nebulous world of the blogosphere, and from shareholders urging responsibility from large corporations. It is nothing short of a progressive revolt, author David Sirota maintains. In his book he seeks people of varying walks of life who are part of this movement and takes the listener inside their worlds--from a border patrol to Lou Dobbs's newsroom. Lloyd James's narration strikes a balanced tone--not smarmy, but not dead-on serious. It's a perfect fit for Sirota's well-written book. Don't expect potshots against the right wing. The author never resorts to a rant, just as James never relies on a cartoonish or arrogant voice. M.B. (c) AudioFile 2008, Portland, Maine
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