Renaissance Ruminations Reviews Netroots Rising
I don’t frequently agree with the right-wing blogosphere, and I don’t agree with everything in this book review by Renaissance Ruminations either. Having said that, “bwana” is one of the best writers in the Virginia “rightosphere,” and his review of Netroots Rising is generally excellent.
The bottom line? If you want to stay on top of Virginia politics, you need this book. Likewise if you are interested in politics in general, use of technology, demographic shifts, communications, media relations…the list goes on. The book scores as history, manifesto, and analysis…but it also serves to tell the story of people who wanted to make a change and got in the fight to do so…and that is the kind of book we should all be interested in.
FYI, we would have loved to put in more material on a number of topics, but as anyone who’s published a book knows, there are many many constraints you’ve got to deal with. In general, we wrote what we knew best, but we were still forced to leave out a great amount of excellent material. In part, that material is available on this website, but there’s a ton more stuff that we could have gone into if we had had unlimited time and space. With specific regard to the “rightosphere,” that’s not primarily our story, but we certainly would be interested in reading a Republican version of “Netroots Rising,” perhaps penned by a fine writer like “bwana?” 