Next Republic eBook

A book for this moment: Both an assessment of our current political leadership and a vision of those who can bring substantive change.

Who are the new progressive leaders emerging to lead the post-Trump return to democracy in America? Nation political correspondent and award-winning author D.D. Guttenplan''s The Next Republic is an extraordinarily intense and wide-ranging account of the recent fall and incipient rise of democracy in America.
     The book includes new labor activist and author Jane McAlevey, racial justice campaigner (and mayor of Jackson, Mississippi) Chokwe Antar Lumumba; environmental activist (and newly elected chair of the Nebraska Democratic Party) Jane Kleeb; Chicago''s first openly gay Latino public official Carlos Ramirez-Rosa; #ALLOFUS co-founder Waleed Shahid; three of the young architects of Bernie Sanders amazing rise, digerati Corbin Trent, Saikat Chakrabarti, and Zack Exley, founders of Brand New Congress; 350.org co-founder and executive director, environmentalist May Boeve; and author and anti-corruption crusader Zephyr Teachout. Chapters profiling these grassroots organizers and high-tech politicos, alternate with deeply researched historical chapters that recount periods in American history--The Whiskey Rebellion of 1794, the Lincoln Republic that led to the winning of the Civil War and the end of slavery, and the Roosevelt Republic that followed Franklin D. Roosevelt''s presidency that helped propel the creation of the great American middle class of the post-war period--all democratic movements whose forward momentum brought considerable progress before they were thwarted. Guttenplan understands the magnitude of the problem of democracy, and at the same time the great possibilities for its resurgence. Like a cross between George Packer''s The Unwinding and John F. Kennedy''s Profiles in Courage, The Next Republic is both unyielding and deeply hopeful, the first book to come out of the Trump ascendency that stakes a claim for seeing beyond it.