Democracy Awakening
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** #4 New York Times bestseller **
In Democracy Awakening, American historian Heather Cox Richardson examines how, over the decades, an elite minority have made war on American ideals. By weaponising language and promoting false history, they are leading Americans into authoritarianism and creating a disaffected population.
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This book is about recent American history. Like most people, I tend to depend upon my own memory of recent events and press coverage of those events. Heather Cox Richardson puts them all in larger context and tracks trends through history from much earlier origins. When I took a university course on the History of World War II over 60 years ago, I discovered that many (perhaps most) historians then thought that historical subjects that had occurred within living memory were not appropriate for historians to write. My professor proved them wrong on this point. I still have the textbook,…
Heather Richardson is one of our best historians. I love her brilliance, and I love that she knows the material well enough to explain it simply to the novice.
I read her previous book, and this next one didn't disappoint. If I could only read one book on how the USA has come to this, Democracy Awakening would be it. I recommend it for anyone who would finally like to try democracy in a USA where race no longer predicts outcomes!
From William's list on explaining a divided United States of America.
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