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Ladataan... The Great Suppression: Voting Rights, Corporate Cash, and the Conservative Assault on DemocracyTekijä: Zachary Roth
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Kirjaudu LibraryThingiin nähdäksesi, pidätkö tästä kirjasta vai et. Ei tämänhetkisiä Keskustelu-viestiketjuja tästä kirjasta. Tämä arvostelu kirjoitettiin LibraryThingin Varhaisia arvostelijoita varten. Good book overall. Interesting concept and story. Tämä arvostelu kirjoitettiin LibraryThingin Varhaisia arvostelijoita varten. Roth gets some points right, but fails to criticize the same policies and procedures of the neo-liberal left. The book is great if you want a one sided hit piece without a clear consistent approach. Tämä arvostelu kirjoitettiin LibraryThingin Varhaisia arvostelijoita varten. At one point during this read, I sent a Facebook message telling the author that I had to keep putting his book down. It's the antithesis of the usual back page blurb.."Pageturner that I couldn't put down." But, in contrast, I HAD to put this one down after every chapter, just to recover. The amount of knowledge packed into each segment, coupled with the anger and shock at what some right-leaning pols have accomplished, was astonishing. But that is an amazing thing. For an author to make that connection with not only his complete knowledge and understanding of a subject but artful prose. Simply amazing. Buy this book. And when you are done. Share it. ei arvosteluja | lisää arvostelu
"A deeply reported look inside the new conservative movement working to undermine American democracy. Control of the country is up for grabs--and Republicans have been rigging the game in their favor. Twenty-two states have passed restrictions on voting. Ruthless gerrymandering has given the GOP a long-term grip on Congress. Meanwhile, the Supreme Court has eviscerated campaign finance laws, boosting candidates backed by big money. It would be worrying enough if these were just schemes for partisan advantage. But the reality is even more disturbing. As reporter Zachary Roth reveals, a growing number of Republicans distrust the very idea of democracy--and they're doing everything they can to limit it. In The Great Suppression, Roth unearths the deep historical roots of this anti-egalitarian worldview, and introduces us to its modern-day proponents: The GOP officials pushing to make it harder to cast a ballot; the lawyers looking to scrap all limits on money in politics; the libertarian scholars reclaiming judicial activism to roll back the New Deal; and the corporate lobbyists working to ban local action on everything from the minimum wage to the environment. And he travels from Rust Belt cities to southern towns to show us how these efforts are hurting the most vulnerable Americans and preventing progress on pressing issues. A sharp, searing polemic in the tradition of Rachel Maddow and Matt Taibbi, The Great Suppressionis an urgent wake-up call about a threat to our most cherished values, and a rousing argument for why we need democracy now more than ever"-- Kirjastojen kuvailuja ei löytynyt. |
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