The Revolution Will Not Be Televised : Democracy, the Internet, and the Overthrow of Everything

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Summary: Restoring the American Community!
Review: This book is a must read if you want a glimpse into the future of Political Campaigns. Joe Trippi offers insight and his genius in a book which explains the future of American Democracy and its defeat of TV induced apathy. I read this book, participated in Dean's campaign and am a true believer of his method as outlined in the text.

Do yourself a favor and pick up this book.

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Summary: A open, honest account
Review: This was a very good look into the inside of the Dean campaign, I was especially happy the Mr. Trippi was very honest with himself when he wrote it. (IMHO)



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Summary: Absolutely superb; especially for a Liberal whack-o!
Review: This will be one half review and one half note to the author (Joe Trippi). Joe, by reading your book, I can tell you're a strong advocate of Amazon.com's model and I strongly suspect you'll eventually get around to reading this review. You are to be congratulated! Speaking strictly as a conservative Republican, you managed to do what I never thought a whack-o, left-winged, nut case could ever do... you impressed the hell out of me with your views. Your political ideology on issues of gay marriage, health care, and other Democratic Party agendas are against everything I was raised to value most and yet we find common ground on the issues of democracy, empowering our citizens, and holding government accountable to the people vice the lobbyists. Since the 2000 Bush/Gore election, I've been bothered by the way our country is equally divided along party lines. We are so politically polarized that we are effectively incapable of hearing another party's views, much less understanding them. We congregate behind our party's leader in much the same way that we cheer on our favorite football team. We rally behind left-wing nutcases like Michael Moore or behind right-wing whack-o's like Ann Coulter, which spread nothing more than rhetoric and gives us no room for meeting somewhere in the middle. You make it a point to mention that our forefathers sat eyeball-to-eyeball to debate the issues of the time, to come to a mutually beneficial solution, and govern our country as "men" (a term inclusive of Women) of character. It was a bottom-up system of representation that we have lost through the television age where ads, speeches, and biased ideas a pushed to our constituents in a top-down format. Our voting public sits like mindless drones as political parties program us with their slant on issues in a vain attempt to push their candidate to the top of the polls. Excerpts are taken out of context, bits of information are conveniently left out, and little white lies are told on both sides of the political spectrum in a last ditch effort to "win at all costs" versus letting the people decide based on the "truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth". You eloquently highlight the potential of the Internet and blogs, in particular, to bring modern Americans back to our roots where "men" (a term inclusive of Women) can meet in a many-to-many format and discuss modern issues in an "open-sourced" environment. You believe, as I do, that transparency in our government has the capacity to serve our citizens better than secrecy and shrouded political strategies. Your views of democracy are not only refreshing, they're downright inspiring. You have a down-to-Earth, blue-collar style of writing that kept me laughing, pissed off, and emotionally involved from cover to cover... something I never expected from Howard Dean's campaign manager. I read all two hundred-n-somethin' pages in two days. The book appears to be a "cloaked" autobiography that gives us a life-long perspective of how you gained an insider's view of modern politics and how your involvement with technology shaped your optimism and vision that we have the capacity to return to our forefather's form of government if we set our collective minds to the task. Very well done, "bro", even if you are a liberal whack-o :o)