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Publisher
Avid Reader Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
America's political system isn't broken. The truth is scarier: it's working exactly as designed. In this book, journalist Ezra Klein reveals how that system is polarizing us -- and how we are polarizing it -- with disastrous results. The American political system -- which includes everyone from voters to journalists to the president -- is full of rational actors making rational decisions given the incentives they face, writes political analyst Ezra...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
An urgent, historically-grounded take on the four major factors that undermine American democracy, and what we can do to address them. While many Americans despair of the current state of U.S. politics, most assume that our system of government and democracy itself are invulnerable to decay. Yet when we examine the past, we find that the United States has undergone repeated crises of democracy, from the earliest days of the republic to the present....
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
One of America's finest reporters and essayists explores the powerful currents beneath the roiled waters of a nation coming apart. Across the country, men of God glorify materialism, a gluttony of the soul, while citing Scripture and preparing for civil war--a firestorm they long for as an absolution and exaltation. Lies, greed, and glorification of war boom through microphones at hipster megachurches that once upon a time might have preached peace...
4) Founding partisans: Hamilton, Madison, Jefferson, Adams and the brawling birth of American politics
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
From bestselling historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist H. W. Brands, a revelatory history of the shocking emergence of vicious political division at the birth of the United States Founding Partisans is a lively narrative of the early years of the republic as the Founding Fathers fought one another with competing visions of what our nation would be. To the framers of the Constitution, political parties were an existential threat to republican virtues....
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