Louis Proyect wrote: > (A surprisingly informed review of 2 new books by Bill Clinton's chief > speech-writer.) > > WORKING, STIFFED > Two books plumb the all-American struggle to make do > By DAVID KUSNET
my friend Ellen will like this (because she laughs at the number of well-known people I've known, including her), but I knew David in college. We were both part of the YPSL, the youth group of the social-democratic Socialist Party, USA, and also of Michael Harrington's successor group, the Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee. He knows a lot and a recent e-mail conversation suggests that he's still a leftist (of some sort -- but who cares which?) He wrote a book called "Speaking American" (or something like that), which was originally aimed at helping the left convince the regular working folks in the non-left to come around to our positions. I guess he must have fallen for Harrington's line about working with the "left wing of the possible" and ended up working for Bill Clinton (and also John Sweeney of the AFL-CIO). -- Jim Devine / "Nobody told me there'd be days like these / Strange days indeed -- most peculiar, mama." -- JL. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
