Joe Klein
What a terrific book! Matt Bai has written the semi-secret history of the Democratic Party as it has writhed toward success in the first decade of 21st century. Filled with hilariously strange characters and situations, this is also a thoroughly reported--and dead serious--look at the direction politics is headed at an important moment in our history. If you want to understand what promises to be a crucial political year in 2008, The Argument is certainly the place to start (Joe Klein, Time Magazine political columnist and author of Politics Lost)
Evan Thomas
Matt Bai has written a wonderful book--honest, insightful, and funny. Democrats should read it and weep--or learn from it. (Evan Thomas, Newsweek)
Michael Tomasky
One of the most fascinating, underreported, and misunderstood political stories of the Bush era has been the liberal effort to push the Democratic Party to be more aggressive and to stop getting rolled by conservatives...Matt Bai conveys this important behind-the-scenes story with unmatched insight, wisdom, and sympathy. (Michael Tomasky, editor, Guardian America)
Roger Rosenblatt
This is both an original and a significant book - something very hard to come by. Matt Bai has not only disclosed the dead zones in the Democratic Party; he also has hit upon the questions that could bring the Party - and the country - back to life. As if that were not sufficient, he writes succinctly yet beautifully. The Argument is probably the most important political study of recent years.