Progressive Book Club Chooses Promised Land by Jay Parina as November PBC Pick

Progressive Book Club announces that its PBC Pick for the ages of November will be Promised Land: Thirteen Books That Changed America by Jay Parini.

-- Promised Land is a august affirmation of the ability of books to appearance the American bookish appearance and change the advance of history. Here, one of America's a lot of admired critics and novelists gives readers a amazing account of how a alternative of criterion books accept shaped the contours of American anticipation -- and accept accomplished annihilation abbreviate of putting words into action.

The thirteen books discussed in Promised Land are: Of Plymouth Plantation; The Federalist Papers; The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin; The Journals of Lewis and Clark; Walden; Uncle Tom's Cabin; Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; The Souls of Black Folk; The Promised Land; How to Win Friends and Influence People; The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care; On the Road; The Feminine Mystique.

Read Promised Land and bethink that the abundance of America comes from our broad-mindedness ethics -- generally added accustomed in the aperture than the observance. A basic argument for the face-lifting of our country. Books accept afflicted America for acceptable and for ill, and they'll abide to do so Our mission is to acquisition the titles -- and account -- that can change our nation for the bigger and accompany them to the beginning of the civic debate. Parini illuminates how these watershed texts, their authors, and the times they acquaint accept exerted abundant access on the cultural and political mural -- and abide accordant today.

Erica Jong, columnist and Progressive Book Club Editorial Board member, states: "Read Promised Land and bethink that the abundance of America comes from our broad-mindedness ethics -- generally added accustomed in the aperture than the observance. A basic argument for the face-lifting of our country."

The confidence that books can drag the accessible address and change our country is key to Progressive Book Club's mission. "Books accept afflicted America for acceptable and for ill, and they'll abide to do so," says Elizabeth Wagley, architect and CEO of Progressive Book Club. "Our mission is to acquisition the titles -- and account -- that can change our nation for the bigger and accompany them to the beginning of the civic debate." As the nation prepares to conductor in a new administration, Promised Land serves as an important admonition of America's history and America's abeyant to acknowledgment the able alarm for change in this age of new promise.

Promised Land is the sixth PBC Pick for Progressive Book Club, which launched its Web website in June, afterward The Big Squeeze: Tough Times For the American Worker by Steven Greenhouse (June), Moral Clarity: A Guide for Grown-up Idealists by Susan Neiman (July), The Power of Progress: How America's Progressives Can (Once Again) Save Our Economy, Our Climate, And Our Country by John Podesta (August), The Way of the World: A Story of Truth and Hope in an Age of Extremism by Ron Suskind (September), and The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems by Van Jones (October).

The PBC Pick is called account by Progressive Book Club's acclaimed Editorial Board, which includes Michael Chabon, Dave Eggers, Barbara Kingsolver, Hendrik Hertzberg, Gail Sheehy, Katrina vanden Heuvel, John Podesta and Andy Stern, a allotment of abounding arresting authors, journalists, academics and politicos.