John Avlon is senior columnist for Newsweek and the Daily Beast as well as a CNN contributor. He is the author of Independent Nation: How Centrists Can Change American Politics and Wingnuts: How the Lunatic Fringe is Hijacking America as well as an editor of the anthology Deadline Artists: America's Greatest Newspaper Columns. Previously, he was a columnist and associate editor for the New York Sun and chief speechwriter for New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani. He won the National Society of Newspaper Columnists' award for best online column in 2012.
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Deadline Artists: America's Greatest Newspaper Columns
"Well-catalogued and categorized, this exultant retrospective of American journalism seems ideal for today's attention spans and travel schedules... Avlon, Angelo, and Louis's glorious compilation "is a chance to be there at moments when America changes, for better or for worse." Free-flowing to the very end, lasting drops of pure wisdom...as far as this essential anthology goes, it's so well done, there's nothing left to say."
—Publishers Weekly
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Independent Nation: How Centrists Can Change American Politics
"A rewarding portrait of a political trend the established parties have tried to ignore."
—Barron's
"A brave and compelling case for the past persistence and future dominance of American Centrism."
— Blueprint Magazine
"The best political book ever on American centrist voters."
—TheModerateVoice.com
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Wingnuts: How the Lunatic Fringe is Hijacking America
"Wingnuts offers a clear and comprehensive review of the forces on the outer edges of the political spectrum that shape and distort our political debate. Shedding more heat than light they drive frustrated alienated citizens away from the reasoned discourse that can produce real solutions to our problems."
—President Bill Clinton
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The Resilient City
From "Empire City: New York Through the Centuries" Read John Avlon's essay on the attacks of September 11th, "The Resilient City," which was selected to conclude this anthology of writing about New York City from its founding. The essay won acclaim as "the single best essay written in the wake of 9/11."
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Partisan Journalists Are Following the Money All Too Literally – The Daily BeastNovember 14th, 2012
Sifting through the wreckage of the 2012 election, conservatives are realizing the price of staying inside their cocoon. The unskewed polls, the partisan cheerleading and complaints about the MSM’s liberal bias, the rigid think-tank reinforcement—it all led the right into a state of denial about the election, and a disconnect Read more…
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In the horse race coverage of political campaigns, we sometimes forget that elections are just exciting preambles to the main event — governing. Now’s the time when the parties return to Washington and try to implement the people’s wishes as expressed in the election. And unlike 2008 and 2010, neither Read more…
An unprecedented amount of money was spent in the 2012 election — some $6 billion in total. But the real slumbering scandal was how much of that was an infusion of cash from Super PACs – supposedly independent “political action committees” exercising their right to free speech on the election Read more…