RaveThe Los Angeles Review of Books... magnificent, paradigm-shifting ... lucid and deep detail ... Writers like these are doing important work in this political moment, reinvigorating the leftist intellectual imagination ... complex but also deeply accessible and lucidly written. It is, in other words, a democratic book about democracy ... Taylor’s deep and wide examination of democratic movements, conversations, and grassroots institutions makes the reader feel as if they are already part of this conversation, as if by reading the book, they have already started to engage in the practice of being a democratic citizen. She speaks to the reader on the level of an equal, and the reader starts to feel as if they could speak back. To put it differently, reading Taylor’s book makes one think democratically, but this thinking also invigorates one’s everyday movements, and makes one start to feel democracy as a pleasure of thinking and acting.
