Jim Hightower
Clatsop Community College
Performing Arts Center
Friday, March 13, 2009
SOLD OUT
but you can still buy the book at
BEACH BOOKS!
On Friday, March 13, Coast Community Radio brings "America's #1 Populist", Jim Hightower, to the Performing Arts Center in Astoria.
National radio commentator, writer, public speaker, and author, Jim Hightower has spent three decades battling the Powers That Be on behalf of the Powers That Ought To Be - consumers, working families, environmentalists, small businesses, and just-plain-folks.
Twice elected Texas Agriculture Commissioner, Hightower believes that the true political spectrum is not right to left but top to bottom, and he has become a leading national voice for the 80 percent of the public who no longer find themselves
within shouting distance of the Washington and Wall Street powers at the top.
Hightower was raised in Denison, Texas, in a family of small business people, tenant farmers, and working folks. A graduate of the University of North Texas, he worked in Washington as legislative aide to Sen. Ralph Yarborough of Texas;
he then co-founded the Agribusiness Accountability Project, a public interest project that focused on corporate power in the food economy; and he was national coordinator of the 1976 "Fred Harris for President" campaign. Hightower then returned to his home state, where he became editor of the feisty biweekly, The Texas Observer. He served as director of the Texas Consumer Association before running for statewide office and being elected to two terms as Texas Agriculture Commissioner (1983-1991).
During the 90's, Hightower became known as "America's most popular populist," developing his radio commentaries, hosting two radio talk shows, writing books, launching his newsletter, giving fiery speeches coast to coast, and otherwise
speaking out for the American majority that's being locked out economically and politically by the elites.
As political columnist Molly Ivins said, "If Will Rogers and Mother Jones had a baby, Jim Hightower would be that rambunctious child -- mad as hell, with a sense of humor."
Available at Beach Books
"An irreverent and uplifting look at how individuals and companies can be both successful and socially responsible. An entertaining and insightful look at making a living while staying true to one's values." -- Publisher's Weekly