The Capital Times: "Don't despair. We have Glenn Hurowitz's 'Fear and Courage in the Democratic Party' to see us through."

Check out the excerpts from this amazing review by The Capital Times's John Nichols:

Cautious Dems Pay a Price
By John Nichols, The Capital Times (Madison, WI)
January 24, 2008

Election years invariably produce stacks of books about the political parties that -- for better or worse, mostly worse -- form the framework of the American electoral system.

The vast majority of them will fail to last the year, and rightly so.

That's because they are written not by people who care passionately about the values that are supposed to define a Democrat or a Republican but by pundits and out-of-work pols who reduce heart-and-soul concerns to drab debates about strategy.

The Democratic stack is distinguished only by its painful predictability....It is enough to turn even the most serious political reader toward fiction.

But, don't despair. We have Glenn Hurowitz's "Fear and Courage in the Democratic Party" to see us through the 2008 campaign season.

This is a smart book by a smart man who cares deeply about the Democratic Party and recognizes that its dismal track record in recent years -- both out of power and in -- is less about specific stands on issues than it is about a deep and unrelenting ignorance of what matters, and what works, in politics.

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