Where did the liberal authors go?

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Tuesday February 28, 2012 · 12:09 AM PST

2012/02/28 · 00:09

Michael Kazin has a good article up at The New Republic that raises an issue I've been wondering about for a while. Walk into any bookstore and you'll find the shelves packed with fresh copies of books from a conservative bent, some of them coming from the same author in a few months time. In Kazin's article entitled Why Don’t Liberals Write Big Books Anymore? he asks where is this generation's Tom Hayden, Jane Jacobs, James Baldwin, Howard Zinn, Betty Friedman, or Rachel Carson? Liberal authors who didn't just respond defensively to the right, the way Will Bunch, Naomi Klein, or Thomas Frank do, but actually aspired to be visionaries and movement leaders.

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Tuesday December 13, 2011 · 7:38 PM PST

2011/12/13 · 19:38

Back in early 2010 it was announced that Oliver Stone would be directing a massive special documentary series for Showtime called "The Untold History of the United States". It would chronicle nothing less than the entire 20th century, from the election of McKinley to the present day, and would seek to probe the "untold" or forgotten evolution of the American national security state leading to the rise of what is effectively the American Empire.

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Where did the liberal authors go?

Oliver Stone's Untold History of the United States coming to Showtime in 2012