This weekend I leave for a two week tour to promote my new book [1], the product of seven years' labor. I'll be blogging here sporadically if at all.

Folks interested in keeping up on the latest NIXONLAND news should join the Facebook group. [2]

Seattle folks can come see me Monday, May 12 at Town Hall at 7:30; Bay Area friends can join me at Book Passage,
51 Tamal Vista Blvd. in Corte Madera, Tuesday afternoon May 13 at 1:30 at Cody's in Berkeley Wednesday night May 14 at 7; SoCal types can track me down Thursday, May 15 at Pi on Sunset, 8828 Sunset Blvd, at 7.

Week two: Friends in the Washington D.C. area should join us for the panel and reception May 20 being jointly sponsored by Campaign for America's Future and the Nation—and featuring the great Helen Thomas! Details: see the ad at upper right. I'll also be reading the previous evening at Olsson's at 418 7th St. NW. New Yorkers can boogie down on the NIXONLAND tip May 21 at Borders at 461 Park Avenue, and fans of adult beverages shouldn't miss the book party the next night, Thursday the 22, at Brooklyn's Last Exit bar at 7, 136 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn.

I hope to meet some of you there. My engagement in the progressive blogosphere was more than incidental to this project, as I explain in the acknowledgments

When I wrote my first book, my ability to reconstruct the mental world of activists working for political change was profoundly enhanced by my work as a participant-observer with the New York Working Families Party. This time, I enjoyed a privileged perch within a sui generis movement for political change and media accountability as extraordinary in its way s the rise of the CIO in the 1930s and the Moral Majority and Christian Coalition in the 1980s and '90s: the progressive blogosphere, or 'netroots.' Here's where the paring gets pretty ruthless, but I'd at least like to recognize John Amato, John Aravosis, Duncan Black, the late Steve Gilliard, Jane Hamsher, Ezra Klein, Howie Klein, Josh Marshal, Markos Moulitsas, Max Sawicky, Pastor Dan Schultz, Matt Stoller—and, first among equals, the one person besides my wife with whom I've enjoyed my most important intellectual partnership, Heather 'Digby' Parton.

I should have mentioned my readers, as well.