Local book review

This brief book review came from Dave Wood and recently appeared in several papers that are part of the company (Forum Communications) that I work for.

On the regional front we have “Beating the Powers that Be,” by Sean Scallon (Order at www.PublishAmerica.com). With Democrats and Republicans seemingly unable to get anything done other than hurling insults at each other, it seems particularly appropriate that Scallon should write a book about successful third parties of the past, including the Non-Partisan League of North Dakota, the Farmer-Labor Party of Minnesota and the Progressive Party of Wisconsin.

Dave Wood is a past vice-president of the National Book Critics Circle and former book review editor of the Minneapolis Star Tribune. Wood is currently a columnist and book reviewer for Rivertowns Newspapers and the Red Wing Republican-Eagle.