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Democracy in One Book or Less - How It Works, Why It Doesn't, and Why Fixing It Is Easier Than You Think (Hardcover)
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Democracy in One Book or Less - How It Works, Why It Doesn't, and Why Fixing It Is Easier Than You Think (Hardcover)
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Bill Bryson meets Thomas Frank in this deeply insightful,
unexpectedly hilarious story of how politicians hijacked American
democracy and how we can take it back The democracy you live in
today is different-completely different-from the democracy you were
born into. You probably don't realize just how radically your
republic has been altered during your lifetime. Yet more than any
policy issue, political trend, or even Donald Trump himself, our
redesigned system of government is responsible for the peril
America faces today. What explains the gap between what We, the
People want and what our elected leaders do? How can we fix our
politics before it's too late? And how can we truly understand the
state of our democracy without wanting to crawl under a rock?
That's what former Obama speechwriter David Litt set out to answer.
Poking into forgotten corners of history, translating political
science into plain English, and traveling the country to meet
experts and activists, Litt explains how the world's greatest
experiment in democracy went awry. (He also tries to crash a party
at Mitch McConnell's former frat house. It goes poorly.) The result
of Litt's journey is something you might not have thought possible:
a page-turner about the political process. You'll meet the Supreme
Court justice charged with murder, learn how James Madison's
college roommate broke the Senate, encounter a citrus thief who
embodies what's wrong with our elections, and join Belle the bill
as she tries to become a law (a quest far more harrowing than the
one in Schoolhouse Rock!). Yet despite his clear-eyed assessment of
the dangers we face, Litt remains audaciously optimistic. He offers
a to-do list of bold yet achievable changes-a blueprint for
restoring the balance of power in America before it's too late.
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