Bill Bishop, the former Herald-Leader editorial columnist who now lives in Texas, is coming back to Lexington next Monday (July 14) for a 7 p.m. book signing at Joseph-Beth Booksellers.
His new book — The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of Like-Minded America Is Tearing Us Apart — is getting a lot of national attention. It has been reviewed in The New York Times and The Economist. I reviewed it in the Herald-Leader.
But perhaps the biggest plug for The Big Sort came unsolicited from former President Bill Clinton, speaking at the recent Aspen Ideas Festival. Click here to see a short video of Clinton discussing the book and talking about why he thinks we need more bipartisanship and optimism as we face up to the problems of the future.
