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  • The Betrayal

    How Mitch McConnell and the Senate Republicans Abandoned America

    by Ira Shapiro ...
    In two previous highly regarded books on the U.S. Senate, Ira Shapiro chronicled the institution from its apogee in the 1970s through its decline in the decades since. Now, Shapiro turns his gaze to how the Senate responded to the challenges posed by the Trump administration and its prospects under President Biden. The Founding Fathers gave the US Senate many functions, but it had one fundamental ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

  • Broken

    Can the Senate Save Itself and the Country?

    by Ira Shapiro ...
    While the hyper-partisanship in Washington that has stunned the world has been building for decades, Ira Shapiro argues that the U.S. Senate has suffered most acutely from the loss of its political center.In Broken, Ira Shapiro, a former senior Senate staffer and author of the critically-acclaimed book The Last Great Senate, offers an expert’s account of some of the most prominent battles of the ... Read more

    $35.69 USD

  • The Betrayal

    How Mitch McConnell and the Senate Republicans Abandoned America

    by Ira Shapiro ...
    Understanding the greatest catastrophic failure of American Government.In 2022, Ira Shapiro completed what Brooking scholar William A. Galston called “an epic trilogy” chronicling the disastrous decline of the once-great Senate. The Founding Fathers gave the Senate many functions, but it had one overriding responsibility: to provide a check against a dangerous president who threatened our ... Read more

    $18.79 USD

  • The Last Great Senate

    Courage and Statesmanship in Times of Crisis

    by Ira Shapiro ...
    The Last Great Senate tells the story of the final four years of the progressive Senate of the 1960s and 1970s which compiled a record of accomplishment unmatched in our country’s history. It is a narrative history of the statesman who, working with an outsider president, Jimmy Carter, helped steer America through the crisis years of the late 1970s, transcending partisanship and overcoming ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

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    The Betrayal

    How Mitch McConnell and the Senate Republicans Abandoned America

    by Ira Shapiro ...
    Narrated by Paul Bellantoni ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 25 min

    In two previous highly regarded books on the US Senate, Ira Shapiro chronicled the institution from its apogee in the 1970s through its decline in the decades since. Now, Shapiro turns his gaze to how the Senate responded to the challenges posed by the Trump administration and its prospects under President Biden. The Founding Fathers gave the US Senate many functions, but it had one fundamental ... Read more

    $20.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Broken

    Can the Senate Save Itself and the Country?

    by Ira Shapiro ...
    Narrated by Stephen R. Thorne ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 19 min

    While the hyper-partisanship in Washington that has stunned the world has been building for decades, Ira Shapiro argues that the U.S. Senate has suffered most acutely from the loss of its political center. In Broken, Ira Shapiro, a former senior Senate staffer and author of the critically-acclaimed book The Last Great Senate, offers an expert's account of some of the most prominent battles of the ... Read more

    $25.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    When the Republican Party Lost Its Mind

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    Narrated by Paul Boehmer ...

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    **One of The Washington Post's 10 Best Books of 2022The disturbing eyewitness account of how a new breed of Republicans—led by Marjorie Taylor Greene, Paul Gosar, Matt Gaetz, Lauren Boebert, and Madison Cawthorn—far from moving on from Trump, have taken the politics of hysteria to even greater extremes and brought American democracy to the edge**The violent insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on ... Read more

    $25.00 USD

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    Holding the Line

    Inside the Nation's Preeminent US Attorney's Office and Its Battle with the Trump Justice Department

    Narrated by Geoffrey Berman ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 33 min

    "Throughout my tenure as US attorney, Trump's Justice Department kept demanding that I use my office to aid them politically, and I kept declining - in ways just tactful enough to keep me from being fired. I walked this tightrope for two and a half years. Eventually, the rope snapped." - from Holding the Line"A cautionary tale about how political forces can undermine the quest for justice." - ... Read more

    $20.00 USD

  • Reaganland

    America's Right Turn 1976-1980

    A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOKFrom the bestselling author of Nixonland**,** The Invisible Bridge**, and** Before the Storm comes the dramatic conclusion of how modern conservatism took control of American political power.Over two decades, Rick Perlstein has published three definitive works about the emergi... ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Lyndon B. Johnson

    Portrait of a President

    by Robert Dallek ...
    Robert Dallek's brilliant two-volume biography of Lyndon Johnson has received an avalanche of praise. Michael Beschloss, in The Los Angeles Times, said that it "succeeds brilliantly." The New York Times called it "rock solid" and The Washington Post hailed it as "invaluable." And Sidney Blumenthal in The Boston Globe wrote that it was "dense with astonishing incidents." Now Dallek has condensed ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Tear Down This Myth

    How the Reagan Legacy Has Distorted Our Politics and Haunts Our Future

    by Will Bunch ...
    In this provocative new book, award-winning political journalist Will Bunch unravels the story of how a right-wing cabal hijacked the mixed legacy of Ronald Reagan, a personally popular but hugely divisive 1980s president, and turned him into a bronze icon to revive their fading ideology. They succeeded to the point where all the GOP candidates for president in 2008 scurried to claim his mantle, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Rule and Ruin:The Downfall of Moderation and the Destruction of the Republican Party, From Eisenhower to the Tea Party

    The Downfall of Moderation and the Destruction of the Republican Party, From Eisenhower to the Tea Party

    Series series Studies in Postwar American Political Development
    As the 2012 elections approach, the Republican Party is rocketing rightward away from the center of public opinion. Republicans in Congress threaten to shut down the government and force a U.S. debt default. Tea Party activists mount primary challenges against Republican officeholders who appear to exhibit too much pragmatism or independence. Moderation and compromise are dirty words in the ... Read more

    $16.19 USD