"Tom Geoghegan's punchy political memoir-and-manifesto is hilarious, poignant, and rippling with strong ideas and practical hope for change. It's probably a good thing he didn't win his campaign because Members of Congress aren't allowed to write this well."--Congressman Jamie Raskin (MD-8), lead House manager in Donald Trump's second impeachment trial "It is so easy to take democracy for granted, and yet as Tom argues with his inimitable wit and brilliance, it's truly one of the most radical and sublime ideas humans have ever come with. This book made me laugh out loud and also gave me glimpses of an entire horizon of possibility I hadn't seen before."--Chris Hayes, host of MSNBC's All In With Chris Hayes "I wish I could come up with a blurb as witty, succinct, and as morally incisive as a single average sentence in any of Tom Geoghegan's books. When it comes to what American democracy can be, he is our troubadour, our trumpet, our taskmaster. It's time for all of us to listen--before it's too late."--Rick Perlstein, author of Reaganland "Tom Geoghegan's new book is a fascinating look at what it actually means to be represented in this country.

Everyone should read this book to be reminded of our own critical role in America's political system."--Phoebe Judge, host and co-creator of the podcasts Criminaland This Is Love "Tom Geoghegan is my idea of a model citizen: dogged in ferreting out and defending the people's interest, animated by the promise of genuine self-government, and impatient with the cant of the complacent and the powerful. In The History of Democracy Has Yet to Be Written , he's given us not only the great gift of his own hard-won wisdom as a Whitmanian social democrat, but also the urgent injunction of Whitman himself, to go forth into the tumult of the world dedicating ourselves anew to the sacred cause of UNIONISM."--Chris Lehmann, author of The Money Cult and Rich People Things.