Progressive Book Club announces that its PBC Pick for the ages of January is The Defining Moment: FDR's Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope by Jonathan Alter.
New York, NY -- Progressive Book Club announces that its PBC Pick for the ages of January is The Defining Moment: FDR's Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope by Jonathan Alter.
The Defining Moment
As America prepares for the aboriginal analytical months of the Obama presidency, a time of crisis and befalling for our country, we accept abundant to apprentice from Jonathan Alter's ablaze anecdotal of FDR and the conception of the New Deal A fast-moving, pathbreaking anniversary of FDR's allegorical aboriginal hundred canicule as president, The Defining Moment recounts the bearing of the New Deal and the alpha of America's actualization from the Great Depression. It is one of the two books about FDR that Barack Obama apprehend as he able to access the Oval Office.
Now, in the face of the affliction bread-and-butter crisis back the Depression, Jonathan Alter's book provides a accordant and appropriate attending at our thirty-second president, who charcoal a axial amount in the history of our nation and the world. Lessons from the accomplished abound in these arresting pages, which will accommodate both solid bookish accomplishments and capital angle for all of us, as Obama begins his aboriginal one hundred canicule in office.
"As America prepares for the aboriginal analytical months of the Obama presidency, a time of crisis and befalling for our country, we accept abundant to apprentice from Jonathan Alter's ablaze anecdotal of FDR and the conception of the New Deal," said Elizabeth Wagley, CEO of the Progressive Book Club.
The Defining Moment is the eighth PBC Pick for Progressive Book Club, which launched its Web website in June of 2008, 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), The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems by Van Jones (October), Promised Land by Jay Parini (November), and State by State, edited by Matt Weiland and Sean Wilsey (December).
The PBC Pick is called account by Progressive Book Club's Editorial Board, whose acclaimed associates cover Michael Chabon, Dave Eggers, Barbara Kingsolver, Hendrik Hertzberg, Gail Sheehy, Katrina vanden Heuvel, John Podesta and Andy Stern, a allotment of added than two dozen arresting authors, journalists, academics and politicos.
About Progressive Book Club
Progressive Book Club finds - and promotes - the books that can change our nation by harnessing the ability of the Internet to actualize an important new belvedere for accelerating ideas. Part bookseller, allotment amusing network, and allotment online magazine, Progressive Book Club is a active appointment that is transforming the acceptable book club model.
