AAM Hosts AUTHORS TURNING THE PAGE at Denver Dem Convention

By Mark Green

with Sorensen, Krugman, Markos, Huffington, Dyson...

What better way to contribute to a political convention than with...content?
For those of you who may be in Denver, please come by The Big Tent #1 (at intersection of 15th and Wynkoop Street) at 3p Monday to hear Authors Turning the Page: Ideas on Election '08.

While we'll all be inundated with political news, tactics, polls this Convention week, Air America wanted to focus on the big issues that'll face the candidates and country this Fall, and then in 2009-2013. So working in alliance with The Progressive Book Club, housed with us in NYC, we reached out to many of the most prominent progressive authors in the country with this assignment -- apply some wisdom in your last book and apply it to the '08 presidential contest.

The line-up will be spectacular:

*Ted Sorensen will discuss his book Counselor -- and he'll discuss the eerie similarities between JFK and Barack Obama.

*Michael Eric Dyson & Jonathan Alter will do the same with their books about MLK and FDR.

*Paul Krugman will analyze economic populism vs. plutocracy through the prism of his book The Conscience of a Liberal.

*Arianna Huffington & John Podesta will discuss the continuing progressive v. conservative contest in light of their books, Right is Wrong and The Power of Progress.

*Markos Moulitsas and David Sirota will apply lessons from their respective books, Taking on the System and The Uprising.

*Jane Mayer and Anne-Marie Slaughter will focus on their specialties -- foreign policy and Iraq/torture -- to talk about how America can dig itself out of its deep hole in Iraq and internationally.

The three panels (see attached) will be moderated by me and by the incomparable Thom Hartmann, host of course of The Thom Hartmann Show on AAM and author/editor of 29 books, including the reassurance of his very popular The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight book.

We're pleased to announce that the event will be streamed live from Denver and will be broadcast twice next weekend, at 7pm on Saturday and 10am time on Sunday.

See you in Denver or on the radio or on the Web!