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Matthew Yglesias - Matthew Yglesias is a fellow at the Center for American Progress Action Fund.
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Matthew Yglesias is a fellow at the Center for American Progress. His first book, with the working title Heads in the Sand: Iraq and the Strange Death of Liberal Internationalism, scheduled to be published next spring by John Wiley and co., deals with the Democratic Party's struggle to find a post-9/11 foreign policy, focusing primarily on the rise and (hopefully) fall of the liberal hawk movement.

Previously, he was a staff writer at The American Prospect and an Associate Editor at TPM Media, where he contributed to the group blogs Tapped and TPMCafe. His main blog, now at The Atlantic, has existed in various forms since the dark ages of the blogosphere in January 2002.

His writing has appeared in The Guardian, Slate, The New Republic, and The Washington Monthly, and he is a regular on BloggingHeads.tv and makes the occasional radio or television appearance.

Desperately out of touch with the American mainstream, Yglesias was born and raised in Manhattan and studied philosophy at Harvard where he was editor in chief of The Harvard Independent, a campus alternative weekly.

His latest writings can be found on the Matthew Yglesias blog.

Two Great Tastes

By Matthew Yglesias
Mar 23 2008, 4:11 PM ET Comment

I see that the Amazon page for Heads in the Sand is telling me that people who buy my book might also enjoy Rick Perlstein's Nixonland. Indeed, you can buy both simultaneously for just $41.88.

As it happens, I just got to read the first 15 pages or so of Nixonland yesterday before relinquishing Spencer's copy back to him, and it's eye-opening. While Rick's been slumming it up as a blogger and pamphleteer, I'd sort of forgotten what an engaging, evocative narrative writer he is. Somewhat confusingly, the book's not about Nixon, it's about the "Nixon era" of American politics starting in 1966. But buy the book. And buy my book, too. Buy them together.

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