Maybe not the best buy

Sounds like a new book on the new, new left might not be worth fiddling with, according to a review in The New Republic. Christopher Hayes writes that Steven Malanga's book, The New New Left: How American Politics Works Today, doesn't really work because it doesn't talk about how American politics works. Instead it's a series of broadsides:

"But despite Malanaga's acid contempt for anyone he disagrees with (whom he never, by the way, actually takes the time to interview) he is onto something. There is a new kind of urban-progressive coalition that has won significant victories in the past decade or so, and The New New Left is useful largely because it lays out the rhetorical strategy that right-wingers are likely to use to try to defeat it."