Our Damaged Democracy: We the People Must Act
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"A Washington insider draws on decades of experience to deliver a blistering critique of the state of American government" (Kirkus Reviews) in an authoritative scrutiny of the forces that run our society and a call to fix our democracy before it's too late.
If you've been watching the news and worrying that our democracy no longer works, this book, "a cri de coeur from one of our wisest Americans" (Michael Beschloss, Presidential Historian), will help you understand why you're right. There is colossal concentration of power in the Presidency. Congress is crippled by partisanship and hostage to special interest money. The Supreme Court and many lower federal courts are riven by politics. Add politically fractured and fragile media, feckless campaign finance laws, rampant income and education inequality, and multicultural divisions, and it's no wonder our leaders can't agree on anything or muster a solid majority of Americans behind them.
With decades at the top in government, law, and business, Joseph A. Califano, Jr. has the capacity to be party-neutral in his evaluation and the perspective to see the big picture of our democracy. Using revealing anecdotes featuring every modern president and actions of both parties, he makes the urgent case that while we do not need to agree on all aspects of politics, we do need to trust each other and be worthy of that trust. He shows how, as engaged citizens, we can bring back systems of government that promote fairness and protect our freedom. "It's hard to argue with [Califano's] analysis" (The New York Times Book Review) that the longer we wait to fix these problems, the more dangerous our situation will become.
If you've been watching the news and worrying that our democracy no longer works, this book, "a cri de coeur from one of our wisest Americans" (Michael Beschloss, Presidential Historian), will help you understand why you're right. There is colossal concentration of power in the Presidency. Congress is crippled by partisanship and hostage to special interest money. The Supreme Court and many lower federal courts are riven by politics. Add politically fractured and fragile media, feckless campaign finance laws, rampant income and education inequality, and multicultural divisions, and it's no wonder our leaders can't agree on anything or muster a solid majority of Americans behind them.
With decades at the top in government, law, and business, Joseph A. Califano, Jr. has the capacity to be party-neutral in his evaluation and the perspective to see the big picture of our democracy. Using revealing anecdotes featuring every modern president and actions of both parties, he makes the urgent case that while we do not need to agree on all aspects of politics, we do need to trust each other and be worthy of that trust. He shows how, as engaged citizens, we can bring back systems of government that promote fairness and protect our freedom. "It's hard to argue with [Califano's] analysis" (The New York Times Book Review) that the longer we wait to fix these problems, the more dangerous our situation will become.
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If you've been watching the news and worrying that our democracy no longer works, this book, "a cri de coeur from one of our wisest Americans" (Michael Beschloss, Presidential Historian), will help you understand why you're right. There is colossal concentration of power in the Presidency. Congress is crippled by partisanship and hostage to special interest money. The Supreme Court and many lower federal courts are riven by politics. Add politically fractured and fragile media, feckless campaign finance laws, rampant income and education inequality, and multicultural divisions, and it's no wonder our leaders can't agree on anything or muster a solid majority of Americans behind them.
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If you've been watching the news and worrying that our democracy no longer works, this book, "a cri de coeur from one of our wisest Americans" (Michael Beschloss, Presidential Historian), will help you understand why you're right. There is colossal concentration of power in the Presidency. Congress is crippled by partisanship and hostage to special interest money. The Supreme Court and many lower federal courts are riven by politics. Add politically fractured and fragile media, feckless campaign finance laws, rampant income and education inequality, and multicultural divisions, and it's no wonder our leaders can't agree on anything or muster a solid majority of Americans behind them.
With decades at the top in government, law, and business, Joseph A. Califano, Jr. has the capacity to be party-neutral in his evaluation and the perspective to see the big picture of our democracy. Using revealing anecdotes featuring every modern president and actions of both parties, he makes the urgent case that while we do not need to agree on all aspects of politics, we do need to trust each other and be worthy of that trust. He shows how, as engaged citizens, we can bring back systems of government that promote fairness and protect our freedom. "It's hard to argue with [Califano's] analysis" (The New York Times Book Review) that the longer we wait to fix these problems, the more dangerous our situation will become. - sortTitle
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A Washington insider draws on decades of experience to deliver a blistering critique of the state of American government."I've never been so concerned about the destiny of our democracy," writes Califano Jr. (The Triumph & Tragedy of Lyndon Johnson: The White House Years, 2015, etc.), who has served in a wide variety of roles in the federal government. In simple, clear language, he sets out a catalog of readily recognizable woes that he contends have caused all three branches of government to lose their constitutional bearings and their capacity to provide coherent and unifying leadership. Among these are a relentless concentration of power in the presidency and an abandonment of responsibility by a "crippled and cowardly" Congress; the politicization of the federal courts, particularly the Supreme Court; the extent to which fundraising has usurped the energy of legislators; a loss of independence in the states; and a take-no-prisoners partisanship that has made cooperation and compromise all but impossible. Califano is doggedly bipartisan in his criticism, leaving no doubt that there is ample blame to go around for what are ultimately systemic faults that have been building for half a century. The author's concerns about the executive and legislative branches are particularly well-informed, persuasive, discouraging, and sometimes frightening; his discussions of the courts and such issues as gerrymandering and various political and cultural "fault lines" are less so. The situation Califano describes is so dire that his conclusion is disappointing. It appears that what "we the people"--a phrase he tiresomely overuses--must do is form ourselves into a better informed and thoughtful electorate, elect a better class of statesmen, and hold them firmly accountable. If he is right about that, then perhaps we are only getting the government we deserve.A blunt diagnosis of how our federal government has run so badly off the rails that offers little realistic hope of reform.COPYRIGHT(2017) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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