Blue in a Red State: The Survival Guide to Life in the Real America - Hardcover

Blue in a Red State; The Survival Guide to Life in the Real America

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very good. Rachel Levy (Author photograph) (illustrator). First Printing [Stated]. The format is approximately 5.625 inches by 8.5 inches. xvi, 184, [6] pages. Autographed copy sticker on front of DJ. Signed by the author with a sentiment on the fep--reads To liberals everywhere--you are not alone! Justin Krebs. DJ has slight wear and soiling. Justin Krebs is a political and cultural writer, entrepreneur and organizer. He is the author of 538 Ways to Live, Work and Play Like a Liberal, a book that launched a 65-city tour, and he is a regular contributor to It's A Free Country, the politics website of WNYC, New York's Public Radio. Justin is a founder and National Director of Living Liberally, an organization that creates social communities around progressive politics across the country, including Laughing Liberally comedy shows, Screening Liberally film series, Drinking Liberally happy hours and many more programs. Justin has developed creative campaigns with progressive allies including environmental advocates, labor unions, immigration activists, civil rights groups and good-government campaigns. He is a former Senior Fellow at the New Organizing Institute in Washington, DC, and a former Activist Fellow with CREDO Action in San Francisco. Past experiences also include writing a history of New York City's playgrounds, producing a civic engagement tour that turned into an award-winning PBS documentary and working for then-Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton. Justin is a graduate of Harvard University. He serves on the Board of Directors of Get In The Game, a non-partisan voter registration organization. Imagine if you felt out of step with every other member of the parent association at your kid's school, your quilting circle, or even your workout group. What if casual conversations revolved around Fox News and the decline of American values? How would you feel if you were afraid to put a political bumper sticker on your car or had to think twice about what liberal posts you liked on Facebook? These are just some of the experiences shared by liberals across twenty states and five time zones who tell their stories with honesty, warmth, and humor. Most of us have to talk across the aisle once or twice a year, when we're seated next to our conservative out-of-town uncle at Thanksgiving, say. But millions of self- identified liberals live in cities and towns, particularly away from the East and West Coasts, where they are regularly outnumbered and outvoted by conservatives. In this uplifting and completely original book, Justin Krebs, the founder of the national Living Liberally network, speaks with and tells the stories of atheists, vegetarians, environmentalists, pacifists, and old-fashioned liberals, a term he is intent on rehabilitating, from Texas to Idaho, South Carolina to Alaska. Krebs weaves these stories together to create a provocative and rollicking taxonomy of strategies for living in a diverse society, with lessons for every participant in our great democratic experiment. Artikel-Nr. 88150

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