![]() ![]() Yeah, the answer is that, obviously, I'm a child of the '80s, and I was deeply impacted by that decade and that pop culture - and for many reasons, that pop culture is back in a lot of ways. What made you want to take this approach? David Sirota: Yes, you have perceived correctly. Westword: It seems like this book is a little bit lighter a take on things than your previous books have tended to be. In advance of the book's release tonight at the Mercury Cafe, we caught up with Sirota to talk, among other things, about what Rambo and Reagan have in common. His latest book, Back to Our Future: How the 1980s Explain the World We Live in Now - Our Culture, Our Politics, Our Everything, is a little bit different - but Sirota fans won't find the territory entirely unfamiliar, either. ![]() ![]() For much of his career, David Sirota has been a hard-hitting leftist political operative, running campaigns with what former Clinton White House Chief of Staff John Podesta once called his "instinct for the jugular" and later moving into the world of Journalism and commentary these days, he's a Denver-based syndicated columnist and author of two best-sellers, The Uprising and Hostile Takeover, both of which stayed steadfastly in the realm of his political leanings. ![]()
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