Description: Demagogue's Playbook : The Battle for American Democracy from the Founders to Trump, Hardcover by Posner, Eric A., ISBN 1250303036, ISBN-13 9781250303035, Used Good Condition, Free shipping in the US "Cuts through the hyperbole and hysteria that often distorts assessments of our republic, particularly at this time." - Alan Taylor, winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for History What-and who-is a demagogue? How did America's Founders envision the presidency? What should a constitutional democracy look like-and how can it be fixed when it appears to be broken? Something is definitely wrong with Donald Trump's presidency, but what exactly? The extraordinary negative reaction to Trump's election-by conservative intellectuals, liberals, Democrats, and global leaders alike-goes beyond ordinary partisan and policy disagreements. It reflects genuine fear about the vitality of our constitutional system. The Founders, reaching back to classical precedents, feared that their experiment in mass self-government could produce a demagogue: a charismatic ruler who would gain and hold on to power by manipulating the public rather than by advancing the public good. President Trump, who has played to the mob and attackedinstitutions from the judiciary to the press, appears to embody these ideas. How can we move past his rhetoric and maintain faith in our great nation? In The Demagogue's Playbook, acclaimed legal scholar Eric Posner offers a blueprint for how America canprevent the rise of a demagogue and protect the features of a democracy that help it thrive-and restore national greatness, for one and all"--
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Book Title: Demagogue's PlayBook : the Battle for American Democracy from the Founders to Trump
Number of Pages: 320 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Topic: Political Process / General, History & Theory, General, Presidents & Heads of State, American Government / General, Political Ideologies / Democracy, Sociology / Social Theory
Item Height: 1.2 in
Publication Year: 2020
Genre: Political Science, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography
Item Weight: 13.9 Oz
Author: Eric A. Posner
Item Length: 8.5 in
Item Width: 5.7 in
Format: Hardcover
