Friday, January 9, 2009
News Shelf Life: 'The Nation Guide to the Nation' edited by Richard Lingeman
Posted by Wyatt Williams @wyatt_williams on Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 7:48 PM
GENRE: Like a Zagat or Places To See guidebook for unabashed liberals
REASONS TO HAVE THIS BOOK: Ever fretted over finding the best summer camp for your leftist children? Looking for a worker-owned, unionized strip bar? Want to eat at Studs Turkel’s favorite restaurant? The Nation Guide has you covered.
GEORGIA: Not exactly the most prominent location in the book, but we’re not off the map, either.
MANUEL’S TAVERN: Atlanta’s most revered liberal hangout is given a short but loving bio. The Nation's version omits that Manuel’s son (and the bar’s current owner) Brian Maloof, is rumored to have some Republican leanings.
DID YOU KNOW? Eugene Debs, famed union organizer, Nobel Peace Prize nominee, and founder of the IWW, lived in Atlanta from April 1919 until the end 1921. While in Atlanta, Debs ran for president and received over six percent of the popular vote, the highest ever for a Socialist Party candidate. Want to visit his old house? It’s the United States Penitentiary on McDonough Boulevard.
FARMERS MARKETS: The list of locations for locally grown food or farmers markets is simply too short. For an actual database of locally grown and organic food in Georgia, check out Georgia Organics.
BOOK STORES: The hand-picked list of liberal book stores, on the other hand, is up to date. Local favorites A Cappella and Charis get well-deserved nods.
RADIO STATIONS: Those needing a respite from the bile spewed forth daily by Limbaugh, Hannity, and their ilk will find a decent list of liberal minded radio stations, including Atlanta’s WRFG 89.3.
SUGGESTED ALTERNATE TITLE: From the introduction, “The Nation Guide could serve as an anthropological study … The Culture, Manners and Mores of the American Left, as Evidenced by Their Patterns of Culture, Codes of Consumption, Tastes in Food and Drink, Styles of Political Activism, Haunts and Meeting Places and Mating Habits.”
The Nation. Guide to the Nation Edited by Richard Lingeman. Vintage Books. $19.95. 400 pp.
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