I'm very proud to help introduce the work of Kim Phillips-Fein to a wider audience. Way back in the mid-nineties in New York City, a bunch of us aspiring professional public intellectuals used to get together for drinks every couple of weeks. Kim was the brightest of the bunch. She demonstrated her exemplary intellectual citizenship in a searching and stylish series of articles and reviews in magazines like The Nation, The American Prospect, and In These Times.

(Please welcome in the comments Tom Geoghegan, author of See You in Court: How the Right Made America a Lawsuit Nation and host Rick Perlstein -- jh)

(Please welcome author Linda Perlstein, author of Tested: One American School Struggles To Make the Grade and her fabulous brother Rick Perlstein to chat with us in the comments today -- JH) I've been a proud member of the FDL extended family for a couple of years now. ("Kobe is a big Rick Perlstein fan", dammit!).

Please welcome author Daniel Brook and reviewer Rick Perlstein for our book chat, and keep the conversation on topic. Thanks! Other open discussion can go on for the fresh topic thread just below this one. The original version of this review ran here: be sure to bookmark Rick's blog!