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Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America -- Heather Cox Richardson - H

Description: "A vibrant, and essential history of America's unending, enraging and utterly compelling struggle since its founding to live up to its own best ideals... It's both a cause for hope, and a call to arms."--Jane Mayer, author Dark Money From historian and author of the popular daily newsletter LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN, a vital narrative that explains how America, once a beacon of democracy, now teeters on the brink of autocracy -- and how we can turn back. In the midst of the impeachment crisis of 2019, Heather Cox Richardson launched a daily Facebook essay providing the historical background of the daily torrent of news. It soon turned into a newsletter and its readership ballooned to more than 2 million dedicated readers who rely on her plainspoken and informed take o Book and Mortar Record Store Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America -- Heather Cox Richardson "A vibrant, and essential history of America's unending, enraging and utterly compelling struggle since its founding to live up to its own best ideals... It's both a cause for hope, and a call to arms."--Jane Mayer, author Dark Money From historian and author of the popular daily newsletter LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN, a vital narrative that explains how America, once a beacon of democracy, now teeters on the brink of autocracy -- and how we can turn back. In the midst of the impeachment crisis of 2019, Heather Cox Richardson launched a daily Facebook essay providing the historical background of the daily torrent of news. It soon turned into a newsletter and its readership ballooned to more than 2 million dedicated readers who rely on her plainspoken and informed take on the present and past in America. In Democracy Awakening, Richardson crafts a compelling and original narrative, explaining how, over the decades, a small group of wealthy people have made war on American ideals. By weaponizing language and promoting false history they have led us into authoritarianism -- creating a disaffected population and then promising to recreate an imagined past where those people could feel important again. She argues that taking our country back starts by remembering the elements of the nation's true history that marginalized Americans have always upheld. Their dedication to the principles on which this nation was founded has enabled us to renew and expand our commitment to democracy in the past. Richardson sees this history as a roadmap for the nation's future. Richardson's talent is to wrangle our giant, meandering, and confusing news feed into a coherent story that singles out what we should pay attention to, what the precedents are, and what possible paths lie ahead. In her trademark calm prose, she is realistic and optimistic about the future of democracy. Her command of history allows her to pivot effortlessly from the Founders to the abolitionists to Reconstruction to Goldwater to Mitch McConnell, highlighting the political legacies of the New Deal, the lingering fears of socialism, the death of the liberal consensus and birth of "movement conservatism." Many books tell us what has happened over the last five years. Democracy Awakening explains how we got to this perilous point, what our history really tells us about ourselves, and what the future of democracy can be. Author: Heather Cox Richardson Publisher: Viking Published: 09/26/2023 Pages: 304 Binding Type: Hardcover Weight: 1.05lbs Size: 9.10h x 6.20w x 1.30d ISBN: 9780593652961 Review Citation(s): Library Journal Prepub Alert 04/01/2023 pg. 13 Kirkus Reviews 07/15/2023 Publishers Weekly 07/31/2023 Shelf Awareness 09/23/2023 About the Author Heather Cox Richardson is Professor of History at Boston College. She has written about the Civil War, Reconstruction, the Gilded Age, and the American West in award-winning books whose subjects stretch from the European settlement of the North American continent to the history of the Republican Party through the Trump administration. Her work has appeared in the Washington Post, the New York Times, and The Guardian, among other outlets. She is the cohost of the Vox podcast, Now & Then.

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Label: Viking

Artist: Richardson, Heather Cox

Album: Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America

Book Title: Democracy Awakening : Notes on the State of America

Number of Pages: 304 Pages

Language: English

Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group

Topic: Conspiracy Theories, Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Political Ideologies / Fascism & Totalitarianism, Curiosities & Wonders, Civics & Citizenship, Political Ideologies / Democracy, United States / General

Item Height: 1.1 in

Publication Year: 2023

Genre: Political Science, Référence, Social Science, History

Item Weight: 17.2 Oz

Item Length: 9.3 in

Author: Heather Cox Richardson

Item Width: 6.2 in

Format: Hardcover

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