Help! Need book titles: 1 is a how-to for grassroots politics; other is

a book on U.S. history. I can't for the life of me remember the titles of these two books! Help me out if you can; kick this thread if you can't.

Okay, the how-to book featured a blurb on its advertising literature about some young woman who ran for local office and won; it also talked about winning seats on school boards/local school councils, among many other things.

The history book was suggested by someone on DU, and can't track down the thread. It was either world history or U.S. history told without the usual white-man's-burden, ignore-genocide crap.

If you have any bloody idea which books I'm talking about, let me know!

Basically, I'm going to reeducate myself. I'm also buying Understanding Sun Tzu on the Art of War by Robert Cantrell.

In case you are wonder why I am doing this, I have decided that going to protest Bush is useless; he doesn't care. He's not going to be in office too much longer anyway (unless he pulls a Bananas and declares himself dictator). I want to start acting on a much more local level. If 70 people can gang up on Bush at his ranch, why couldn't we get 100 people to camp outside of the Illinois Family Institutes's offices or hound a few of our local "journalists" (read: concubines to Moloch) into having some, hell, I don't know, STANDARDS?

How about we get each and every local Republican on tape telling us whether or not they support the outlawing of abortion, birth control, etc.?

BTW: demgurl, if you read this, please comment.

Edit: Wow, that had a lot of typos. Sorry.

:hi:

:smoke: that's really Far out man.. really fine, way fine, cool

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The Activist's Handbook: A Primer Updated Edition with a New Preface (Paperback)
by Randy Shaw "In a previous era, social change activists were guided by the immortal words of Mary "Mother" Jones: "Don't mourn, organize..." (more)

Stir It Up: Lessons in Community Organizing and Advocacy (Paperback)
by Rinku Sen, Kim Klein "If we are to shift power, our organizing has to be grounded in a clear and common understanding of how the world works..."

Don't Think of an Elephant: Know Your Values and Frame the Debate--The Essential Guide for Progressives (Paperback)
by George Lakoff, Howard Dean

MoveOn's 50 Ways to Love Your Country: How to Find Your Political Voice and Become a Catalyst for Change (Paperback)
by Moveon "We live in the third century of the world's most important political experiment: the founding of an American democracy "of, by, and for the people..."

RIP Bill Moyer he passed last year ...Great book
maps out building social movements