Senator Elizabeth Warren finds publisher, editor for her new book

[East Coast Pirate]

Last edited Fri May 24, 2013, 07:54 AM - Edit history (1)

http://www.boston.com/politicalintelligence/2013/05/22/senator-elizabeth-warren-finds-publisher-editor-for-her-new-book/TRgRip918QvOleeQU6dvXM/story.html

WASHINGTON -- Senator Elizabeth Warren has found a publisher two months after the Massachusetts Democrat began shopping her book proposal.

Henry Holt and Company, one of the nation’s oldest publishers, announced it had obtained the rights to publish the book, which it characterized as telling both “Senator Warren’s improbable rise from a working class family in Oklahoma to the United States Senate,” as well as providing “a rousing call for protecting the middle class.”

The book will be published in the spring of 2014 and will be edited by John Sterling, who is editor at large for Macmillan, of which Henry Holt and Company is part.

Neither the publisher nor Warren’s office would reveal how much of an advance Warren was paid. A press release from the publisher noted that a portion of Warren’s net proceeds would be donated to OneFund Boston.

[Laelth]

1. k&r for Elizabeth Warren. n/t

-Laelth

[demwing]

2. Who says a book can’t rescue the American middle class?

Books can change whole societies. And did anyone catch the subtle Mein Kampf reference:

"a lot of politicians who say they want to rescue the American middle class are writing books about their travails"

Travails is synonymous with struggle (Mein Kampf = My Struggle)

The author makes the connection , which is a cheap shot, but also insinuates that its all a show, timed to coincide with the 2016 election. These politicians only say they want to rescue the American middle class.

They can't be serious. The written word has no influence on social change. Ask Hitler, or Mao, or Thomas Paine.

[East Coast Pirate]

3. I agree that there is a cynical slant to that article.

I should probably find a better one. I think Elizabeth Warren means what she says.

Edit: Found a better one.

[hfojvt]

4. I still hate when politicians talk about the middle class

because it tends to be a very high income definition, say from the 60-98th percentile is defined as "middle" class and whatever the propose to help the "middle" class tends to give very short shrift to the bottom 60%.

Paine's pamphlet had a large amount of influence, but Hitler and Mao did what they did with armies, not books. Hitler's book may have inspired some hundred of his followers/party members, but didn't do much in the German nation. It was remarkable later for being somewhat predictive.