Pod Save America hosts and Crooked Media co-founders Jon Favreau, Jon Lovett, and Tommy Vietor introduced that they’ll publish their first e book, titled Democracy or Else.
This no-nonsense information to saving American democracy is printed by Zando’s Crooked Media Reads imprint, with world publishing rights acquired by Zando senior editor Sara Ried. Crooked Media will donate its income from ‘Democracy or Else’ to help Vote Save America, it’s companions, and different organizations who’re mobilizing for progressive outcomes within the 2024 election and past.
Democracy or Else: The way to Save America in 10 Straightforward Steps, written by Favreau, Lovett, and Vietor with Emmy-nominated author/producer Josh Halloway (Jimmy Kimmel Dwell!), might be launched on June 4, 2024 from Crooked Media Reads, a partnership between the progressive media firm and unbiased writer Zando.
Simply in time for the 2024 presidential election cycle, Democracy or Else takes readers on a step-by-step journey by means of the daunting job of citizenship – from the fundamentals of find out how to vote, donate, and volunteer – to organizing, working in politics, and operating for workplace. With the biting humor and truthfully Crooked Media listeners have come to count on, the authors sort out the collection challenges dealing with our nation by offering accessible methods to implement change with out dropping hope or your thoughts.
The irreverent, insightful information attracts on the authors’ intensive political expertise within the Obama presidential marketing campaign and administration, that includes never-before-heard anecdotes and unique interviews with among the greatest political minds round.
“Politics is a slog, and it’s irritating even on the times when a mob isn’t searching Mitt Romney,” stated Favreau, Lovett, and Vietor. “We began Pod Save America and Crooked Media to present folks an outlet for his or her anger, to search out methods to assist and discover humor and pleasure within the combat. This e book has a whole lot of what we’ve discovered from the neatest organizations and least annoying politicians, plus jokes everybody will love with out exception.”
Crooked Media has produced Pod Save America and greater than 30 different exhibits sine its founding in 2017. Crooked additionally launched Vote Save America, a useful resource for political info and a strong neighborhood designed to assist voters take part in democracy, and construct a extra progressive world. Vote Save America has turn out to be a crucial organizing useful resource, driving $60M+ in donations to progressive candidates and causes, and activating over 500,000 voters. Democracy or Else is an extension of this work, a information for everybody from aspiring activists to first-time voters who’re able to become involved however don’t know the place to start out.
Zando CEO and founder Molly Stern stated, “We’re honored to publish Democracy or Else. It’s each crucial information you’ll learn, and maybe the funniest e book about civic engagement on the market. It comes from consultants, who spent years within the White Home, who know coverage inside-and-out, and who’ve been utilizing their unbelievable affect to get folks of all ages engaged in our democratic course of, each by means of exhibits like Pod Save America and their unbelievable Vote Save America initiative.”
Democracy or Else follows Crooked Media Reads’ first publication, Mobility, by acclaimed writer and journalist Lydia Kiesling, which was launched in August 2023 and have become an prompt nationwide bestseller. Crooked Media Reads’ books discover politics, present occasions and activism, narratives on tradition and coverage, memoir, popular culture, historical past, and investigative journalism from a large and numerous vary of views.
Crooked Media will donate its income from Democracy or Else to help Vote Save America, it’s companions and different organizations who’re working to teach Individuals on laws and main political occasions and provides them the instruments they should have an effect and create change on the problems that matter.
