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Democracy under fire : Donald Trump and the breaking of American history / Lawrence R. Jacobs.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jacobs, Lawrence R., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Democracy--United States--History.
- Democracy.
- United States--Politics and government.
- United States.
- Trump, Donald, 1946-.
- Trump, Donald.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (289 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- New York, New York : Oxford University Press, [2022]
- Summary:
- How did democracy become so vulnerable in America? Donald Trump is a shrill warning of the political system's fragility, but he alone is not the problem. The vulnerability is broader and deeper-and looms still. Even before Trump ran for president, his disdain for the rules and norms of democracy and the US Constitution was well-known by many prominent Republicans who were unable to stop his nomination. Trump's presidency is the culmination of a series of political decisions since the late 18th century that ceded party nominations to small cliques of ideologues. Democracy Under Fire provides a readable, if disturbing, history of American democracy and proposes recommendations to restore it.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Jacobs, Lawrence R. Democracy under Fire
- ISBN:
- 0-19-761829-4
- 0-19-087725-1
- 0-19-087726-X
- OCLC:
- 1293243797
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