- Paperback: 310 pages
- Published: 5/1/05
- IBSN: 9780971920682
- e-IBSN: 9781617750519
- Genre: Nonfiction
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Includes Goldberg’s groundbreaking book Dispatches from the Culture Wars, plus a new author introduction and additional chapters.
*While supplies last, books ordered through the website will include a bookplate SIGNED by Danny Goldberg!
“Danny Goldberg’s new book is a stirring, brilliant, last-chance plea to Democrats that if they are unwilling to do their job—be a voice for working people, young people, women, the elderly, the poor, and people of color, (in other words from the MAJORITY of the country)—then their days as a Party are numbered. Years from now, if the Democrats have long faded from American memory, anthropologists and historians will ask, “Didn’t any of them read this book by Danny Goldberg?”
—Michael Moore
“Danny Goldberg’s searing insights should be required reading for anyone concerned with the state of democratic politics in this country.”
—Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, Sr.
“. . . lively and intelligent . . . Goldberg reminds us once again how the battle for freedom of expression needs to be re-fought every day.”
—Eric Alterman
“Danny Goldberg’s memoir contains the powerful reflections of the most progressive activist in the recording industry. His candor, vision and sense of humor is infectious.”
—Cornel West
“If Lester Bangs and Maureen Dowd had a love child, he’d have written this book.”
—Arianna Hufflington
An RDV Books publication.
When did American government become the enemy of American pop culture?
Music insider and progressive activist Danny Goldberg has spent decades tuning in to the rhythms and voices that speak straight to the hearts and desires of America’s youth. In that time, one fact has become increasingly clear: Our venerable political leaders are too often tone deaf. In this startling, provocative book, Goldberg shows how today’s professional public servants have managed to achieve nothing less than the indefensible, wholesale alienation of an entire generation.
DANNY GOLDBERG is the author of five previous books including In Search of the Lost Chord: 1967 and the Hippie Idea and the national bestseller Serving the Servant: Remembering Kurt Cobain. He is a political activist who serves on the boards of Public Citizen, Americans for Peace Now, and Brave New Films. He was the chair of the ACLU Foundation of Southern California from 1987–1994, during which the events described in his newest book, Liberals with Attitude, took place. He is currently president of Gold Village Entertainment and has worked in the music business since the early 1970s as a personal manager for Nirvana, Sonic Youth, Bonnie Raitt, the Allman Brothers, and Steve Earle, among others; and as president of three major record companies: Atlantic, Warner Bros., and Mercury.