Shameless Book Plug

So it's not really in my nature, but many folks tell me I'd be remiss if I didn't point out tonight, when we're seeing such incredible news for the youth vote, that for the past year I've been working on a book on this very topic: Youth To Power: How Today's Young Voters Are Building Tomorrow's Progressive Majority

Today's amazing turnout among young voters is a tribute to the youth efforts of the Obama campaign, but it's also a new high point for a movement to reshape progressive youth politics that has been ongoing since early 2003. In the past year, I've had the pleasure to talk to and meet many of the drivers of that new movement, and Youth To Power chronicles the history and hints at the future directions the new progressive youth politics. I hope you'll check it out (and help me pay my student loans).

Here's what some people are saying:

Michael Connery has written a spirited and savvy guide to the "Millenial" generation that is reshaping progressive youth politics. If you want to understand the ideas, action, spirit and people building the progressive majority of our future-- read this book!

-Katrina vanden Heuvel Editor & Publisher, The Nation

The millennial generation is poised to have a transformative effect on American politics. Read Michael Connery's crisp, well-researched book Youth to Power to understand how and why this is likely to happen.

--Ruy Teixeira, co-author, The Emerging Democratic Majority

In Youth to Power, Michael Connery explains the potential impact of the Millennial Generation in politics. His detailed research sheds new light on to the history of youth political movements and the challenge progressives face in attracting today’s rising generation of young voters

--Neil Howe, Millennials Rising

At last there is a definitive book about the the power and relevence of young voters in America. Michael Connery presents well researched, well thought out, highly pragmatic road map to a progressive future for America. May the gods of politics convey his clarity and vision to the minds of wandering Democrats!.

--Danny Goldberg, author of "How The Left Lost Teen Spirit"