New Rave Reviews, Interviews, and Events

It's been a whirlwind week - and a great one, with a bunch of rave reviews!

During a nationally-broadcast interview on Air America, the passionate and hilarious Lee Rayburn of the Lee Rayburn show gushed about the book: "The story of Paul Wellstone is well worth reading alone. Pick up the book! What I wouldn't give to roll back the clock four years and give a copy of Fear and Courage in the Democratic Party to John Kerry. You've got to pick it up if you want to understand what's going on behind the scenes."

This past weekend, I participated in a book salon at the popular, ground-breaking blog FireDogLake (I followed Nobel Prize Winner Mohammed Yunus). The host, whip-smart Chrissy Bonnano penned a review to launch the salon, writing, "Hurowitz has eloquently articulated what most of us liberals have felt for a long time-courage works. This isn't another book about all the ways the Democratic Party has failed liberals. It's not about starting a conversation; it is a blueprint for changing the conversation. Fear and Courage in the Democratic Party makes a compelling case for a progressive agenda based on principles, not polling data."

The salon participants were even more enthusiastic, with a bunch echoing what "Ian Welsh" wrote: "This is fascinating and you've convinced me I should buy your book." Yay! A lot of this echoed what Paul Hogarth wrote in his review of the book as "compelling and persuasive" at Beyon Chron.

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I also did an hour long interview with Ronn Jordan at Road to the White House. It must have gone well, because during the course of the interview two female admirers called in and asked if I was wearing boxers or briefs and if I was married. That made me feel great! Here's what Ronn said afterwards: "I just wanted to thank you for doing our show Sunday, you were great and our numbers went
through the roof. It was our highest rated show to date."

Hope things keep going well. I've just wrapped up events in Chicago with the University of Chicago Democrats and one in downtown, as well as an event in Philadelphia last week. Tonight, I'm off to Madison, WI (for which I already did an hour-long interview with Joy Cardin of Wisconsin Public Radio) followed by events in Minneapolis on Friday and San Francisco Tuesday. Check out my full schedule here and would love to meet you at an event, and answer your questions, especially if you've already read the book.