Later today, I will have a few suggestions about things we
can all do in the struggle against Trump, but I can never resist the temptation
to tout my own books, so …
Forty-six years ago, when I was desperately scrabbling to
pay for two full-scale analyses and publishing everything I could lay claim to,
I signed a contract to edit a collection of original essays on American
politics called 1984 Revisited – Prospects
for American Politics. I rounded up
some folks I knew to write essays. Each
author was paid $500, which would be $3000 today – not too shabby. Todd Gitlin, Gene Mason, Robert Nakamura,
Michael Lerner, Ira Katznelson, and Frances Fox Piven stepped up to the plate
and I wrote an Introduction. The book
made no impression at all on the world, but the title was great. Maybe I ought to do another one.
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