End the filibuster.
He has Written four other books, and his articles have appeared in The Nation, The Baffler, Harpers, The New York Times, The New Republic, and other publication.
He is also the author of Which Side Are You On? Trying to Be for Labor When It\'s Flat on Its Back (also from New Press), which was nominated in 1991 as one of the five best nonfiction works by the National Book Critics Circle.
His most recent book, Only One Thing Can Save Us: Why America Needs a New Kind of Labor Movement, was published by New Press in December 2014.
He is president of the law firm Despres, Schwartz and Geoghegan, Ltd., which engages in labor, civil rights, and public interest litigation.
He is a graduate of Harvard Law School (1975) and Harvard College (1971).
Geoghegan is a Chicago lawyer and author.
About author(s): Thomas H.
At once an engaging memoir and a call to arms, The History of Democracy Is Yet to Be Written will inspire and invigorate political veterans and young activists alike.
In a polarized country, where 100 million citizens don\'t vote, and those who do are otherwise rarely politically engaged, he makes an impassioned and witty case for the possibility of a truly representative democracy, one built on the ideals of the House, the true chamber of the people, and inspired by the poet who gives the book its name.
Taking its title from Whitman, The History of Democracy Is Yet to Be Written: How We Have to Learn to Govern All Over Again , combines tales from the campaign trail with an incisive vision of how we might get there.
But this humbling experience helped him develop a framework for re-imagining American government in a way that is truly just, fair, and Constitutional.
On election night he lost, badly.
For ninety days leading up to the election Geoghegan, a political neophyte at age sixty, knocked on doors and shook hands at train stations and made fundraising calls.
House, in a special election called when the sitting congressman, Rahm Emanuel, stepped down to serve as newly elected President Barack Obama\'s chief of staff.
In 2008 Geoghegan--then an established labor lawyer and prolific writer--embarked on a campaign to represent Chicago\'s Fifth District in the U.
S.
Only if we do this (and then some), says Thomas Geoghegan , might we heal our fractured democracy.
Make everyone vote.
Abolish the Senate.
End the filibuster
