Gathering Power: The Future of Progressive Politics in America

According to Publishers Weekly, "Osterman, an MIT professor of management and urban studies, offers a template to reenergize the American progressive movement...He believes that progressive politics is the best antidote to the top-down decision making of party politics, which he views as a danger to democracy and responsible for the well-documented alienation of voters. His progressive politics poster child is the Industrial Areas Foundation, or IAF, a network of community organizations whose mundane name belies the local political power it has built through grassroots campaigns."