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"I love Old October so/I can't bear to see her go," sang the Hoosier Poet of this most resplendent and melancholy month. Among the gifts this October brings is the publication of…
Bill Kauffman
October 14, 2013

“I love Old October so/I can’t bear to see her go,” sang the Hoosier Poet of this most resplendent and melancholy month. Among the gifts this October brings is the publication of proud Iowan and porch-sitter Jeff Taylor’s Politics on a Human Scale, which illuminates (and celebrates) the decentralist tradition in American politics. (The link is to amazon, but your local bookseller is always better because, well, human.)

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Bill Kauffman

Bill Kauffman is the author of eleven books, among them Dispatches from the Muckdog Gazette (Henry Holt), Ain’t My America (Metropolitan), Look Homeward, America (ISI), and Poetry Night at the Ballpark (FPR Books). His next book, Upstaters, is due from SUNY Press in 2026. He is a columnist for The American Conservative and The Spectator World. Bill wrote the screenplay for the 2013 feature film Copperhead. He is a founding editor of Front Porch Republic and has served as a legislative assistant to Senator Pat Moynihan, editor for various magazines and publishers, and vice president of the Batavia Muckdogs, a professional baseball team that was euthanized by Major League Baseball. He lives with his wife Lucine in his native Genesee County, New York.

2 comments

  • Jeff Taylor
    12 years ago

    Thanks, Bill.

    If you’re interested in learning more, here’s a website for the book: http://politicshumanscale.blogspot.com/

    If you don’t have a local seller or prefer Amazon, know that the book is currently out of stock but should be available again within a week (not the “1-3 months” listed).

    Yes, unfortunately it’s expensive, even in paperback. I’m tempted to say “You get what you pay for,” but we all know good books that are cheap. Trade paperbacks are like that; academic presses often charge a lot. This is a big book, though, so you do get a lot for your money. If you don’t have $50 to spend but you’re interested, you can borrow it from your local library through interlibrary loan. I’ll be posting an excerpt or two on FPR in the coming days.

  • Benjamin P. Glaser
    12 years ago

    Yikes!

    Looks like an interesting book that I would have to take a loan to purchase. Academic publishers are the worst.

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