With her groundbreaking eponymous television series, Roseanne brought the voice of America’s working class to prime time, joining Ralph Kramden and Archie Bunker among television’s great blue collar heroes. With the Connors and a rocky relationship with fame and fortune behind her, her stand-up has become even more outspoken, while a questionable-award-winning blog and a new series on FreeSpeech.org provide more outlets for her rage against the machine. She discusses her success, and how average working moms just might be the real instruments of radical change.

Roseanne Barr’s conversation with Paul Provenza is in the book.