The Optimistic Leftist; Why the 21st Century Will Be Better Than You Think
New York: St. Martin's Press, 2017. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. 256 Pages Signed by the author sticker on the front of the DJ. Signed by the author on the title page. DJ has slight wear and soiling. "Advances an analysis that should encourage progressives, be cautionary for conservatives, and engage and enlighten everyone who cares about America's political and economic future." --James Fallows, national correspondent, The Atlantic. "A tonic, not because it will make you feel better, although it might, but because he makes a powerful, provocative and persuasive case that progressives are in a better position than they realize to make our world better." --E. J. Dionne Jr., author of Why the Right Went Wrong. T Ruy Teixeira (born December 15, 1951) is an American political scientist and commentator who has written several books on various topics in political science and political strategy. He is most noted for his work on political demography, and particularly for The Emerging Democratic Majority (2002), which he co-wrote with John Judis, a book arguing that the Democratic Party are demographically destined to become a majority party in the United States of the early 21st century. He writes and edits the weblog The Democratic Strategist. In 1999, he moved to the Century Foundation’s Washington office, where he is a Senior Fellow and in 2003 he became a Senior Fellow of a newly formed think tank, the Center for American Progress, headed by John Podesta, Chief of Staff to President Bill Clinton and co-chair of President Barack Obama's transition team. Teixeira is a Senior Fellow at both the Century Foundation and the Center for American Progress. More