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Michael Wolraich I was playing tourist at Occupy Wall Street, marveling at drum circles and general assemblies. It was a new kind of protest, wonderfully inspiring and…moreI was playing tourist at Occupy Wall Street, marveling at drum circles and general assemblies. It was a new kind of protest, wonderfully inspiring and tragically flawed. Yet, while the form was new, the ideas and rhetoric were very old. The condemnation of wealth inequality, mistrust of corporations, and celebration of average Americans echoed the language of long-dead progressive leaders.

I realized that too few protestors knew the history of the slogans they shouted. Some of the older ones paid tribute to mid-century progressives like FDR and JFK. But the pioneers of the progressive movement--Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, William Jennings Bryan, and especially "Fighting Bob" La Follette, have been relegated to dull high school textbooks or at best, lionized in biographies that glorify their leadership and charisma while soft-pedaling their ideas.

So I decided to write about the origin of the progressive movement in a way that brought these fascinating leaders and their struggle for political change to life. I hope the book will inspire a new generation of reformers and revolutionaries by reminding them of their rich history. At the very least, I hope readers will understand how this battle started and why we're still fighting.(less)
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I Sorted Hillary Clinton’s Email

When Hillary Clinton released emails from her personal account last week, many assumed that her attorneys had personally reviewed the messages before sending them to the State Department, but that’s not what happened. As detailed in her press statement, the review team used keyword searches to automatically filter over 60,000 messages, flagging about half as work related.

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"Easily my favorite book that I've read this year, b/c it features the Great Depression, NYC, gangsters, a tough woman who shook things up (unfortunately after her death), and even FDR. NYC was a mess in the early 1930s, with three high-profile unsolv" Read more of this review »
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“the one hand, awed that the world’s great powers had privileged their young nation with so much pomp and finery, on the other hand, boastful of their contrasting republican simplicity.”
Michael Wolraich, Unreasonable Men: Theodore Roosevelt and the Republican Rebels Who Created Progressive Politics

“There is no good reason why we should fear the future, but there is every reason why we should face it seriously, neither hiding from ourselves the gravity of the problems before us nor fearing to approach these problems with the unbending, unflinching purpose to solve them aright.”45”
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“I do not represent public opinion: I represent the public. There is a wide difference between the two, between the real interests of the public and the public’s opinion of those interests.”23”
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