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D. D. Guttenplan's The Holocaust on Trial is a bristling courtroom drama where the meaning of history is questioned. The plaintiff is British author David Irving, one of the world's preeminent military historians whose works are considered essential World War II scholarship and whose biographies of leading Nazi figures have been bestsellers. Irving refuses to admit to Hitler's responsibility in the extermination of European Jewry, replying that the Holocaust as we know it never happened. The defendant is Deborah Lipstadt, who blew the whistle on Irving, calling him "one of the most dangerous spokespersons for Holocaust denial." Irving sued for libel, and under English law, it was up to Lipstadt to prove the truth of her writings, and the falseness of Irving's views.

Popular Front columnist and New Deal propagandist, fearless opponent of McCarthyism and feared scourge of official liars, I. F. Stone (1907–1989)— magnetic, witty, indefatigable—left a permanent mark on our politics and culture. A college dropout, he was already an influential newsman by the age of twenty-five, enjoying extraordinary access to key figures in Washington and New York. Guttenplan finds the key to Stone’s achievements throughout his singular career—not just in the celebrated I. F. Stone’s Weekly—lay in the force and passion of his political commitments. Stone’s calm and forensic yet devastating reports on American politics and institutions sprang from a radical faith in the long-term prospects for American democracy. In an era when the old radical questions—about war, the economy, health care, and the right to dissent—are suddenly new again, Guttenplan’s lively, provocative book makes clear why so many of Stone’s pronouncements have acquired the force of prophecy.

A book for this moment: Both an assessment of our current political leadership and a vision of those who can bring substantive change.Who are the new progressive leaders emerging to lead the post-Trump return to democracy in America? Nation political correspondent and award-winning author D.D. Guttenplan''s The Next Republic is an extraordinarily intense and wide-ranging account of the recent fall and incipient rise of democracy in America.     The book includes new labor activist and author Jane McAlevey, racial justice campaigner (and mayor of Jackson, Mississippi) Chokwe Antar Lumumba; environmental activist (and newly elected chair of the Nebraska Democratic Party) Jane Kleeb; Chicago''s first openly gay Latino public official Carlos Ramirez-Rosa; #ALLOFUS co-founder Waleed Shahid; three of the young architects of Bernie Sanders amazing rise, digerati Corbin Trent, Saikat Chakrabarti, and Zack Exley, founders of Brand New Congress; 350.org co-founder and executive director, environmentalist May Boeve; and author and anti-corruption crusader Zephyr Teachout. Chapters profiling these grassroots organizers and high-tech politicos, alternate with deeply researched historical chapters that recount periods in American history--The Whiskey Rebellion of 1794, the Lincoln Republic that led to the winning of the Civil War and the end of slavery, and the Roosevelt Republic that followed Franklin D. Roosevelt''s presidency that helped propel the creation of the great American middle class of the post-war period--all democratic movements whose forward momentum brought considerable progress before they were thwarted. Guttenplan understands the magnitude of the problem of democracy, and at the same time the great possibilities for its resurgence. Like a cross between George Packer''s The Unwinding and John F. Kennedy''s Profiles in Courage, The Next Republic is both unyielding and deeply hopeful, the first book to come out of the Trump ascendency that stakes a claim for seeing beyond it.