Forthcoming Projects

They got a name for the winners in the world
I want a name when I lose
They call Alabama the crimson tide
Call me deacon blues

-Steely Dan

While I am writing my thesis I'm also putting together a couple of other projects. One is a community-oriented web site, and the other is a work of history. Since I'll be writing for a popular audience instead of an academic audience I decided to do a work of political history. But, instead of writing about the winners, I'll be writing about the losers. On the one hand this will be a series of biographies, anecdotes and vignettes, but on the other hand I hope to inject a meditation on the meaning of loss and losing in US culture and how ideas of losing have changed over time.

Right now I'm assembling a bibliography. Any suggestions on political loss, or on losing in general?