High Media Profile: Known as the Karl Rove of the left, Frederickson speaks around the country as the head of the American Constitution Society and is a very frequent guest on cable news and radio shows, and has written op-eds and articles in The New York Times, The Washington Post, U.S. News and World Report, The Atlantic, The Los Angeles Times, Salon, Washington Monthly. Her most recent op-ed for The New York Times, written with Norman L. Eisen, was one of the first public critiques of the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/10/opinion/brett-kavanaugh-trump.html
Attention for first book:Under the Bus was reviewed in Elle Magazine, Mother Jones, and elsewhere, and prompted articles and author pieces in The New York Times, The Washington Post/em>, and elsewhere, and appearances on MSNBC and Fox News.
Publishing into midterms, but also broader political moment: This will be the book that people point to for how take power back
Built-in national network: The American Constitution Society's yearly conference draws thousands of law students from around the country (which will be leveraged for the book) and then each law school and professional lawyer chapter becomes a built-in audience for an ongoing, perpetual book tour for the author as she travels for her job.