Rebellion
Book description
A chilling and clear-eyed warning about the threats to our democracy posed by the increasing radicalization of the Republican Party, from a leading historian and intellectual
The 2024 election could be the last free election held in a unified America. So warns Robert Kagan in this brilliant and terrifying analysis…
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Why read it?
1 author picked Rebellion as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Robert Kagan created headlines of his own before the US election, by resigning from the Washington Post when its owner, Jeff Bezos, declined to offer an endorsement. Kagan should make headlines after the election for his prescience in Rebellion, which was published in February 2024 and outlined precisely the forces that then promised to push Donald Trump back towards the White House. Spoiler alert: Trump won. Read Kagan to understand why.
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