Ten More Doors: Politics and the Path to Change

For anyone who wants to make political change start a campaign advance a cause or just stay in the fight former Senator Dede Feldmans memoir Ten More Doors charts an inspirational path. Arriving in New Mexico a stranger in 1975 Dedes path to change takes her through alternative newspapers adobe construction womens campaigns and heated grassroots politics. Door-to-door she learns the wisdom of the street in Albuquerques North Valley where matanzas and sweathouses reveal an eclectic mix of old and new Hispanic and Anglo. Once inside the legislature she takes on the big issues amid conflict and corruption developing the grit to persist in a long game that she plays even after she has left the Santa Fe Roundhouse. Dedes honest-and sometimes hilarious-account of neighborhood encounters and both political wins and losses holds lessons for activists journalists aspiring candidates and ordinary citizens on the path to political change. Her memoir-and her life-shows us how the path is never straight and it calls on all of us to make a difference starting at ground level door by door.