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The Progressive Revolution
Open Left - Front Page — ... , comes out in bookstores, and you can order it online through my website. While you're there, please sign up for e-mail updates, as well as my ...

Mike Lux: The Progressive Revolution
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... , comes out in bookstores, and you can order it online through my website. While you're there, please sign up for e-mail updates, as well as my ...

On Today's Inaugurapalooza Lionel Show
The Latest on Air America — ... and author of “ The Progressive Revolution ” joins the show offering a series of prescriptions for our new President to deal with the progressive community and country at large.  Mike has played a major part in the Obama transition team and has been a liaison to the progressive community.  Mike Lux sees the “light.”  (Get it?) Former Democratic Senator Bob Graham (1987-2005), who happens to have been the 38th Governor of my native Flawda (1979-1987) and who was the Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (2001-2003), joins me this morning. On a personal note, ...

"Next Four Years" Meta and My Book
Open Left - Front Page — ... . You can also ask questions in Twitter by tagging them as #NNDCSalon. If you're in DC, the event is at capacity, but hope to see you there if you've RSVP'ed already. We're also selling copies of my new book, The Progressive Revolution at the event, so make sure you get one and say hi. ...

FDL Book Salon w/Rep. Jan Schakowsky Tomorrow
Open Left - Front Page — ... , along with my dear friend Rep. Jan Schakowsky, will be hosting a chat about my new book, The Progressive Revolution. It'll be tomorrow, Saturday the 24th, from 5-7 PM EST. It's always a good time, so if you enjoy sparring in the comments here, head on over and we'll dance. Jan is also always an interesting person to chat with. ...

The LiberalOasis Radio Show: Progressive Revolution Edition
LiberalOasis : The Blog — ... Radio Show was broadcast on WHMP-AM in Western MA. My special guest was Mike Lux from Open Left and The Huffington Post, and author of the new book, The Progressive Revolution. Lux offered his perspective from working on the inside of the Obama-Biden transition team, and shared his insights on the state of the progressive movement. He'll also be appearing at the FireDogLake Book Salon at 5 PM ET today, and you can buy the book at TheProgressiveRevolution.com. The audio podcast for the show is here: (iTunes / ...

A Book Weekend Around the Blogopshere
Open Left - Front Page — Get your copy of my new book, The Progressive Revolution: How the Best in America Came to Be. For those of y'all who missed it, it was a good weekend around the blogosphere for The Progressive Revolution. On Saturday evening Jan Schakowsky and I went over to Firedoglake Book Salon for a chat about the book, and a bunch of other interesting meta questions (some teased by Adam here). Jan also had several interestings comments. On Sunday, SusanG over at DailyKos gave the book a fantastic review, and really summarized the book's theme, argument and ...

History's Lesson: No Progress Without Struggle
Open Left - Front Page — Get your copy of my new book, The Progressive Revolution: How the Best in America Came to Be Cross-posted at Huffington Post As we come off the high of the Inauguration, we have to get ready for what will be some very tough fights ahead.  I have been doing some thinking about the challenges of this whole post-partisan theory of change, and wanted to spend some time addressing it strategically. As you may know, I recently did an interview with Sam Stein at the Huffington Post about my new book, The Progressive Revolution: How the Best in ...

Mike Lux: History's Lesson: No Progress Without Struggle
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — Get your copy of my new book, The Progressive Revolution: How the Best in America Came to Be Cross-posted at OpenLeft.com As we come off the high of the Inauguration, we have to get ready for what will be some very tough fights ahead. I have been doing some thinking about the challenges of this whole post-partisan theory of change, and wanted to spend some time addressing it strategically. As you may know, I recently did an interview with Sam Stein at the Huffington Post about my new book, The Progressive Revolution: How ...

Two Great Philadelphia Netroots Events, Tonight and Tomorrow
Open Left - Front Page — ... Mike Lux in Philly!: First, tonight at the Center City chapter of Drinking Liberally, Mike Lux will be around to discuss his new book, The Progressive Revolution. The event is at 6 p.m., Triumph Brewing Company, 117 Chestnut Street, upstairs bar. ...

Mike Lux: Conservatives: Since FDR Sucked, And Bush Was So Great, Let's Keep Doing What We've Been Doing
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... On January 14, 2009, Lux released his first book, The Progressive Revolution: How the Best in America Came to Be. Lux's book was published by Wiley Publishing. You can purchase The Progressive Revolution by clicking here. ...

Mike Lux: Dems Need To Drop Culture Of Caution
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... Mike Lux was an adviser to President Bill Clinton and to the Obama-Biden transition team and is the author of "The Progressive Revolution: How the Best in America Came to Be" (Wiley, 2009). ...

Dems Need To Drop Culture Of Caution
Open Left - Front Page — ... Mike Lux was an adviser to President Bill Clinton and to the Obama-Biden transition team and is the author of "The Progressive Revolution: How the Best in America Came to Be" (Wiley, 2009).

It's possible to be as stupid as Evan Bayh, but does anyone in his position have the right to be? PLUS: Jay Leno on Obama vs. Bush
DownWithTyranny! — ... It's an exciting piece from our colleague and friend Mike, stressing that the great Democratic victories for social progress have never come from being cautious. Everyone should read this piece. (This seem an appropriate place too for a plug for Mike's new book, The Progressive Revolution: How the Best in America Came to Be.) But the quote from our boy Evan still has me spluttering. Here's a post I churned out earlier to a list on which Mike's post was circulated: ...

Brooks Brothers
Open Left - Front Page — ... I hope the White House doesn't go down the path of saying we aren't trying to make ideological or transformational change. This country is ready for a broad progressive argument, and for what I call in my new book  "a big change moment." Obama has the chance to be another FDR, not only in bringing our country out of economic crisis, but in creating a long-term political majority based on a progressive ideology. Let's hope the "smart guys" in the White House who are reaching out to David Brooks and sniping at Nancy Pelosi don't get their way.

Why I Am A Progressive
Open Left - Front Page — One of the main reasons I wrote my book, The Progressive Revolution: How the Best in America Came to Be, was to give progressive leaders and activists a narrative about American history that would  let them  argue the progressive cause. I am delighted to pass the word on that members of the Democratic caucus in the House have taken that idea, and run with it. Keith Ellison and the Congressional Progressive Caucus organized an hour-long special order on the subject "Why I am a Progressive." The first half-hour was on what progressives have done to make America a better ...

Mike Lux: Rep. Steve King's Anti-Progressive Rant
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... because it had special resonance with me. Rep. Ellison contacted me to let me know that he had read my new book, The Progressive Revolution: How the Best in America Came to Be cover-to-cover and wanted to use some of my ideas and research for a special order on the House floor as part of the Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC) presentation. I was honored, and as I wrote about ...

Political Violence in America
Open Left - Front Page — ... One final caveat: if you look back at the history of political violence in America, as I do in my book The Progressive Revolution: How The Best In America Came To Be, there is no question that progressive-minded folks have also engaged in political violence. The Revolutionary War, the Civil War and World War II were all led by progressives and you don’t get much more violent than a war (not that I would have opposed those wars, I would have supported them). John Brown in the 1850s believed and fought for a violent slave rebellion, and occasionally leftist leaders ...