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The Fall of Wisconsin: The Conservative Conquest of a Progressive Bastion and the Future of American Politics

Dan Kaufman

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The Fall of Wisconsin is a deeply reported, searing account of how the state's progressive tradition was undone and Wisconsin itself turned into a laboratory for national conservatives bent on remaking the country. Neither sentimental nor despairing, the book tells the story of the systematic dismantling of laws protecting the environment, labor unions, voting rights, and public education through the remarkable battles of ordinary citizens fighting to reclaim Wisconsin's progressive legacy.

Book Details

  • Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
  • Publish Date: Jul 9th, 2019
  • Pages: 336
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.20in - 5.40in - 1.00in - 0.60lb
  • EAN: 9780393357257
  • Categories: • Political Ideologies - Conservatism & Liberalism• Political Process - Campaigns & Elections• American Government - State

About the Author

Kaufman, Dan: - Dan Kaufman has written for The New York Times Magazine and The New Yorker. Originally from Wisconsin, he now lives in Brooklyn with his wife and son.

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Liesl Schillinger is a book critic and translator.

!Tune in to Ally Velshi on MSNBC now-hell be talking to my friend Dan Kaufman about the midterms, and Dan’s book “The Fall of Wisconsin.”

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Sam Haselby is an editor and historian.

Krugman cites Kathy Cramer's 2016 The Politics of Resentment, which along with @dankaufman70 's 2018 The Fall of Wisconsin (and Angus Deaton and Anne Case's 2020 The Politics of Despair) are the best books on what a half century... https://t.co/K5MRTFhKqA

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Dan Shafer
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Columnist from Milwaukee. Pragmatic progressive. I write The Recombobulation Area (subscribe!) 17x @MKEPressClub award-winner. Published @nytopinion. BUCKS FAN.

Been looking forward to this one: My friend @dankaufman70, the author of the book “The Fall of Wisconsin,” wrote about the race for Wisconsin Supreme Court for the @NewYorker. It is a spectacular piece. Must-read: https://t.co/XCCgKuYd9a

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[The Fall of Wisconsin] laments the state's recent trajectory and chronicles 'the conservative war' on its political legacy.... Sharply reported.--Michael O'Donnell "New York Times Book Review"
Belongs with well-known recent studies such as J.D. Vance's Hillbilly Elegy and Arlie Russell Hochschild's Strangers in Their Own Land.--Ron Elving "NPR"
Dan Kaufman shows how the state became a conservative test case.... Kaufman believes that Wisconsin's extreme makeover portends something scary for the rest of us.--Jennifer Szalai "New York Times"
Kaufman's taut primer on Wisconsin progressivism hits his mark.... [A]n indispensable guide for activists who wish to have any hope of taking on the vast Republican infrastructure.--Jake Wertz "Los Angeles Review of Books"
The Fall of Wisconsin shows that the most important story in American politics was hiding in plain sight.--Jeffrey Toobin
A deep, heartbreaking dive into a state's shift to the right tells the story of national politics in miniature.-- "Newsweek"
Absorbing.... [Kaufman] presents the state as emblematic of nationwide trends.--M.J. Andersen "Boston Globe"
Kaufman burrows badgerlike into the politics of America's Dairyland, unearthing the personal histories of its people.... In doing so, he reveals Wisconsin's transformation from a 'pioneering beacon' of progressive policies, responsible for the nation's first worker's-comp and unemployment-insurance programs, to 'a laboratory for corporate interests.'--Michelle Hart "O Magazine"
This is a book about political power, its seizure, its uses, and its victims--a powerful amassing of tiny stories of struggle and resistance and often defeat against impossible odds.--John Dolan "Bookforum"
A highly readable, thoroughly engrossing report.--Jim Swearingen "National Book Review"

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