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...them, "I'm writing this book about you"? Not until I finished...
...What did they say? Well, I got through to eight of them; they were bemused, but obviously they weren't going to say much until they saw the book. But some of them were very pleased...
...ever consider making yourself a character in the book? That's what Warren Beatty wants. He wants to make this a movie, but only...
...that your goal in writing the book? To create a practical utopia? No. As you go through year after year, as many civic advocates do, being overwhelmed by the corporate lobbies and their allies in government, you say to yourself, 'If we only had more media, if we only had more money, if we only had more field organizers, if we only had better ideas and strategies.' That's what produced the book. What if we had a collection of superrich elderly, retired people who are very dismayed at the state of their beloved country, and what if they...
...jumping-off point for the story is the government's response to Hurricane Katrina. Was that the genesis of the book idea for you as well? It was one of them, yeah. Another of them was how demoralized they were, these superrich older people that I talked to. I said to them, "How could you be demoralized? You're sitting on 5, 6, 8 billion dollars. For a billion dollars, with field organizers in every congressional district, you can get a single-payer health-care system.' What's a billion dollars to these people...