Eric Alterman

Why We're Liberals: A Handbook for Restoring America's Most Important Ideals

by Eric Alterman

The bestselling author and Newsweek columnist takes a characteristically irreverent look at the rampant mistreatment of liberals and liberalism

The "most honest and incisive media critic writing today"(National...

The Book on Bush: How George W. (Mis)leads America

by Eric Alterman & Mark Green

When George W. Bush became president in January 2001, he took office with a comfortably familiar surname, bipartisan rhetoric, and the promise of calming a public shaken by the convulsions of impeachment and...

When Presidents Lie: A History of Official Deception and Its Consequences

by Eric Alterman

By the end of the 20th century, after decades of demoralizing revelations about the mendacity of their elected officials, most Americans had come to accept the fact that deception was not only an accepted practice...

The Cause: The Fight for American Liberalism from Franklin Roosevelt to Barack Obama

by Eric Alterman & Kevin Mattson

A major history of American liberalism and the key personalities behind the movement

Why is it that nearly every liberal initiative since the end of the New Deal—whether busing, urban development, affirmative...

It Ain't No Sin to Be Glad You're Alive: The Promise of Bruce Springsteen

by Eric Alterman

Political journalist Eric Alterman examines the unique phenomenon that is The Boss and how he has come to reflect and interpret a turbulent quarter century of American history.