Stanley B. Greenberg

Stanley B. Greenberg

Stanley B. Greenberg will discuss his latest book, AMERICA ASCENDANT. Copies of the book will be available for purchase. Stanley B. Greenberg will sign copies of the book immediately following his remarks. Stan Greenberg (CEO – Greenberg Quinlan Rosner) is a New York Times best-selling author and polling adviser to presidents, prime ministers, and CEOs, and currently advises national leaders and their campaigns in Israel, Europe, South Africa, and Latin America. He was the senior pollster for President Bill Clinton and Vice President Al Gore, British Prime Minister Tony Blair, and President Nelson Mandela. Greenberg’s corporate clients include Boeing, Microsoft, and other global companies. Greenberg’s new book, America Ascendant, was released by St. Martin’s Press on November 3, 2015. He has done deep research on the economy for the Roosevelt Institute, on climate change for NextGen, on Israel in the United States, Europe, and the Arab world, on working women and the new economy, on political reform, and on the Nobel Prize-winning campaign to ban landmines. Greenberg and James Carville founded Democracy Corps, the leading organization providing in-depth research and strategic advice to progressive groups, candidates, and leaders. When Karl Rove listed in the Wall Street Journal 10 steps to regain the Republican majority, step one was to create a Democracy Corps. The New York Times' Nate Silver rated their national polls the most accurate, within 1/2 point of Obama's actual margin. His book with Carville – It’s the Middle Class, Stupid! – was a New York Times best seller. Greenberg works closely with Republican pollsters and conducts the bi-partisan polls for NPR, The Los Angeles Times, and the Bipartisan Policy Center. Greenberg was inducted into the American Association of Political Consultants’ “Hall of Fame.” He has been described as “the father of modern polling techniques,” “the De Niro of all political consultants,” and “an unrivaled international ‘guru.’” Esquire Magazine named him one of the most important people of the 21st century. The New Yorker reported Ehud Barak’s victory in 1999 as either a "stunning upset for the country's Labor Party or... just another Greenberg client taking his place as the head of state." Republican pollster Frank Luntz says, "Stan Greenberg scares the hell out of me. He doesn't just have a finger on the people's pulse; he's got an IV injected into it. He's the best." Greenberg founded the company in 1980 after a decade of teaching at Yale University where he received a Guggenheim Fellowship. He was educated at Miami University and Harvard University, where he received his Ph.D. Book Reviews "Stan called me a few weeks ago and he said, ‘I have a book that I finished and I think you’re going to like it.’ He sent it over and boy was he right. It was exactly my kind of book. It was full of all kinds of fabulous history, data, and wonky tidbits. It was just delicious, three hundred pages of deliciousness. I could nerd-out all night on this book...Stan is right. Our diversity is what makes us strong. Our diversity is at the heart of how we build the middle class, of how we will build a middle class. Americans are tough. Americans are resourceful. And Americans work hard. And that’s going to make us always, so long as we do that on the ascendancy. Reading through Stan’s book, and just seeing how page after page, he puts pieces of that together and makes it work, was truly an inspiration...Stan, I hope many many people read your book and are inspired by your book, to have the kind of courage it takes to fight for the America that we believe in. An America of progressive values, an America that will build a stronger future.” - Elizabeth Warren “Here's a full-throated call to American greatness and an exuberant declaration of how we'll get there. Why? Because we're innovative, inventive, multicultural, racially blended, ethnically diverse, open to the advances of gays and women and people of color, and our cities are thriving. Stanley Greenberg -- able to take America's pulse like no one else -- also recognizes America's shortcomings: Widening inequality, the persistence of poverty and racism, and hidebound conservative Republicans. But he explains how we'll overcome these in years to come. An ebullient and uplifting view of the 21st century as America's Century.” - Robert B. Reich “America Ascendant is a compelling read because you feel you are reading history before it happens. And it is eye-opening and jaw dropping at the same time. It shows how conservatives are in a fight with history, and there is just no chance of them winning. None. You name the issue. Climate change. Coal. Immigration. Marriage equality. Just a college education. They are opposed to everything the country needs to happen. And this book shows they aren't going to win any war with history." - James Carville “With a great sense of history as well as a deep understanding of the hopes and fears of today's Americans, Stan Greenberg lays out how reformers must lead a new national renewal. Our demographics and the nature of the workforce are changing in ways not seen since the industrial revolution. We now need a spirit of political reform that will match these challenges.” - Walter Isaacson "With “America Ascendant,” the widely respected Democratic pollster Stanley Greenberg has written an ambitious book, part history, part social analysis, part campaign memo. Along the way, he provides an interesting diagnosis of America’s ills. Mr. Greenberg believes that “America’s path is to a unified, multicultural identity,” but he is not exactly keen on bringing us together. Like most political practitioners, he looks forward not to ending partisan polarization but to helping his side build a permanent majority. Mr. Greenberg and his focus-group participants aptly describe the problems that candidates of both parties now face. Mr. Greenberg cites both Robert Putnam’s and Charles Murray’s analyses of family disintegration and failed social interconnectedness among Americans who haven’t graduated from college. Amid much fair-minded recounting of Republican opinions, Mr. Greenberg can’t resist some partisan spin. Republicans are so hostile to government and “blue America” that they “nearly disqualify themselves from the public debate." - Michael Barone