Why I'm a Democrat

With America eating and breathing politics as the 2008 general elections approach, WHY I''M A DEMOCRAT offers a dazzling array of answers???in interviews, essays, lists, and art work???and a compelling look at what drives Democrats from all walks of life. Democrats are loyal, funny, passionate??? and sometimes a little ticked off. Nora Ephron, Tony Bennett, Isaac Mizrahi, Frank McCourt, Irma Thomas, Dominick Dunne, Melissa Etheridge, Frans de Waal, Roz Chast, Jonathan Franzen, Andrew Tobias, James Brady, Olympia Vernon, Paul Weitz, Craig Lesley, James Naughton, Maira Kalman, William Wegman, Tama Janowitz, Seymour Chwast, and Min Jin Lee are among the contributors, along with a firefighter from Iowa, a craps dealer from Las Vegas, a vineyard owner from California, plus farmers, CEOs, former Republicans, and ex-Green Party loyalists. Foreword by political journalist (and former conservative) David Brock.