Descripción:
Respected historian and author of How the South Won the Civil War, Heather Cox Richardson delivers an eloquent, compulsively readable, fresh history of American democracy and its struggles. Passionate, powerful and full of genuine aha moments, Democracy Awakening will forever change how you read the daily news.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… Leer más