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Wednesday, December 2, 2009

Politics Author Max Blumenthal at Drinking Liberally

Posted by Jim Nintzel on Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 11:55 AM

Journalist Max Blumenthal, columnist for the Daily Beast, will be the guest at Drinking Liberally this Thursday, Dec. 3.

Blumenthal is the author of Republican Gomorrah:

Republican Gomorrah is a bestiary of dysfunction, scandal and sordidmess from the dark heart of the forces that now have a leash on the party. It shows how those forces are the ones that establishment Republicans-like John McCain-have to bow to if they have any hope of running for President. It shows that Sarah Palin was the logical choice of a party in the control of theocrats. But more that just an expose, Republican Gomorrah shows that many of the movement’s leading figures have more in common than just the power they command within conservative ranks. Their personal lives have been stained by crisis and scandal: depression, mental illness, extra-marital affairs, struggles with homosexual urges, heavy medication, addiction to pornography, serial domestic abuse, and even murder. Inspired by the work of psychologists Erich Fromm, who asserted that the fear of freedom propels anxiety-ridden people into authoritarian settings, Blumenthal explains in a compelling narrative how a culture of personal crisis has defined the radical right, transforming the nature of the Republican Party for the next generation and setting the stage for the future of American politics.

Here's Blumenthal's blog.

Meet him between 6 and 10 p.m. at Elle Restaurant, 3048 E. Broadway Blvd.

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