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Trippi's Untelevised Revolution

Bump: Joe Trippi's excellent book, The Revolution Will Not Be Televised, hits the bookstores tomorrow. You can order at Amazon and get 32% off.


Joe Trippi, of course, is the man responsible for revolutionizing the way political candidates use the internet. As Howard Dean's campaign manager, Trippi launched the most impressive internet campaign in history, raising more than $50 million--mostly with donations of under $100. He also presided over the creation of Dean's incredible grass-roots organization which by the end, included 640,000 people.

Trippi's book is not just about the Dean campaign or the internet. He walks us into the future, with ideas on how businesses and government leaders, in fact, all Americans, can best use our most valuable tool--Democracy.

Trippi explains how internet democracy is transforming our way of life by evenly distributing power. He provides his list of "seven inviolable, irrefutable, ingenious things" businesses and institutions can do to rise to the top--or not.

He also discusses the importance of bloggers to the campaign, particularly crediting Markos of Daily Kos, who served as a consultant to the Dean Campaign for a while. Atrios and Josh Marshall are also featured.

Our review copy came today with a wonderful hand-written inscription from Mr. Trippi, thanking TalkLeft, among other things, "for making the blogosphere a dynamic place where debate blooms.

We remain fascinated by Howard Dean's quick rise and instantaneous fall. We are also intrigued by Joe Trippi's premise that the revolution of bottom-up ideas has begun and will take hold in politics and Government. Wouldn't that be great?

Trippi will be on a speaking tour to promote his book. You can check for your city here.

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