Brad Parker

Left Turn Only: Dispatches from the Progressive Underground Brad Parker First edition

Left Turn Only is a history, analysis and how-to manual of the modern Progressive Movement. The Internet has upended the top-down paradigm of the past and replaced it with a bottom-up network of individual interactive "swarm" intelligence ~ the Progressives. Crony corporate and political interests are under siege by the Progressives. A struggle for the soul of the Democratic Party and the nation is underway. "This is what historians call a primary source, the raw anger that led to effective pressure when grass roots Democrats became infuriated at the perceived betrayal of the antiwar cause after they worked so hard to elect a Democratic Congress in 2006. Invaluable for political scientists and activists trying to understand why Democrats so often abandon their base." - TOM HAYDEN "Left Turn Only chronicles our political era and our opportunities in 2009 and beyond. Brad Parker writes of a struggle in the midst of it; the stakes are immediate and larger than huge." - NORMAN SOLOMON