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How Parties and Ambitious Politicians Undermined American Democracy—and the Reforms that Might Save It
Carol Nackenoff critically evaluates Democracy Under Fire: Donald Trump and the Breaking of American History by Lawrence Jacobs. She argues that book offers a robust vison of democracy and cautions that some of the reforms proposed by Jacobs seem unlikely to achieve the purposes he envisions.
The Strange Death of Liberal America, Ralph Brauer Reviewed by Carol Nackenoff
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