Paul Wellstone (1944-2002)
Basics
Remembering Paul Wellstone. David Moberg, In These Times (11/8/02).
Was Paul Wellstone Murdered? Michael I. Niman, AlterNet (10/28/02).
Wellstone: in his own voice. David Corn, Nation (10/25/02).
American Giant. Tamara Baker, American Politics Journal (10/25/02).
Paul Wellstone, 1944-2002. John Nichols, Nation (10/25/02).
Sen. Paul Wellstone, 1944-2002. NPR (10/25/02).
Paul Wellstone: Gunboat Diplomacy, Gay Marriage & Broken Promises. Jeff Taylor, CounterPunch (8/13/02). Product of Green Party campaign to unseat him in 2002 election.
On the Web: Specialized Sites
In the Library: Articles
Bauerlein, Monika. "A cookie-cutter campaign," In These Times (10/26/96). On Wellstone's grassroots politics.
Bleifuss, Joel. "Our man in the Senate [interview]," In These Times (1/6/97).
Conniff, Ruth. "Minnesota wild card," Progressive (7/02):11-13. On Bush vs. Wellstone in 2002 MN Senate race.
Corn, David. "Wellstone's appeal," Nation (12/2/96):5.
__________. "Wellstone: in his own voice," Nation (11/11/02).
Nichols, John."A candidate for 2000?" Progressive (6/97). Wellstone as potential candidate for the presidency.
__________. "Wellstone & the White House duke it out: the Senate's most progressive member is in the fight of his life," Nation (5/27/02).
__________. "Paul Wellstone, 1944-2002," Nation (11/11/02).
McCarthy, Colman. "Remembering a man of conviction," National Catholic Reporter (11/8/02):24.
Peters, Justin. "Paranoid style," Washington Monthly (12/04). Critical review of Fetzer, American Assassination.
Walljasper, Jay. "Spoiling the Party?" Utne Reader (9-10/02):16-17. Why were Greens running a candidate against Wellstone in 2002?
Wellstone, Paul. "The GOP's lethal Medicare cure," Tikkun (11-12/95):25.
__________. "If poverty is the question..." Nation (4/14/97):15-18. Answer not to abolish welfare, but look to causes.
__________. "Tax cuts hurt children," Progressive (9/99):19.
__________. "Why I support Bradley," Nation (2/7/00):6-7.
__________. "Winning politics," Nation (2/19/01):5-6.
__________. "A winning progressive politics," In These Times (1/6/03):28-30.
In the Library: Non-Fiction Books
Fetzer, American Assassination: The Strange Death of Senator Paul Wellstone (Brooklyn NY: Vox Pop, 2004).
Gydesen, Terry. Twelve Years & Thirteen Days: Remembering Paul & Sheila Wellstone (Minneapolis: U. of Minnesota, 2003).
McGrath, Dennis J. & Dane Smith. Professor Wellstone Goes to Washington: The Inside Story of a Grassroots US Senate Campaign (Minneapolis: U. Minnesota, 199?).
McGarth, Dennis J. Professor Wellstone Goes to Washington (Minneapolis: U. Minnesota, 2002).
Wellstone Action. Politics the Wellstone Way (Minneapolis: U. of Minnesota, 2005).
Wellstone, Paul. How the Rural Poor Got Power (Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 1978).
__________. The Conscience of a Liberal: Reclaiming the Compassionate Agenda (Minneapolis: U. Minnesota, 2002)
_________. Powerline: The First Battle of America's Energy War (Minneapolis: U. Minnesota, 2002)
_________. The Conscience of a Liberal: Reclaiming the Compassionate Agenda (Minneapolis: U. Minnesota, 2001).
In the Library: Poetry
In the Library: Photography
Gydesen, Terry & Jeff Blodgett. Twelve Years & Thirteen Days: Remembering Paul & Sheila Wellstone (Minneapolis: U. Minnesota, 2002)
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