03799cam a2200289 4500 1033730764 TxAuBib 20231105120000.0 ||||||s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780593789483 0593789482 99e5ac83-1dbe-4e9a-b24e-2b990703f416 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 9674380 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Cox Richardson, Heather. Democracy Awakening [Libby Audiobook] : Notes on the State of America. Books on Tape, 2023. Format: OverDrive OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, Filesize: 233MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Listen, Filesize: 233MB. HTML:New York Times Bestseller “Engaging and highly accessible.”—Boston Globe “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. Nonfiction. Politics. History. Media Type: Audiobook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2023-11-04 20:00:03. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=99e5ac83-1dbe-4e9a-b24e-2b990703f416&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=99e5ac83-1dbe-4e9a-b24e-2b990703f416&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Listen)