About the Author:
Katrina vanden Heuvel is editor and publisher of The Nation. She lives in New York City.
From Booklist:
Its circulation is modest, but the Nation's contributors are first-rate. These selections from the 1990s (just one per author) produce (unintentionally, the editors confide) "a unique archive of the issues, values, institutions, and personalities which preoccupied, united and divided, and ultimately defined the independent, democratic left" in that decade. Cornel West remembers Michael Harrington; Deborah W. Meier discusses public school choice; Mike Davis considers Los Angeles' riot/uprising; Paco Ignacio Taibo II discusses the Zapatistas; Susan Faludi asks, "Does Maureen Dowd Have an Opinion?"; Michael Moore wonders, "Is the Left Nuts? (Or Is It Me?)." There's poetry from, among others, W. S. Merwin, Philip Levine, Allen Ginsberg, and Nation regular Calvin Trillin; and illustrations from, among others, Edward Sorel, David Levine, Art Spiegelman, and Gary Trudeau. The Gulf War and the drug war, the collapse of the U.S.S.R. and the impeachment of a president are but a few of the subjects discussed here. Lively, opinionated commentary on issues that matter. Mary Carroll
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