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  • City of Rivals

    Restoring the Glorious Mess of American Democracy

    by Jason Grumet ...
    Forty years ago the Watergate scandal deeply wounded Americans’ faith in government. Since then, good-government reformers and big-government opponents have been on a shared mission to make everything transparent. The problem is that too much light is scaring Congressmen away from making the tough choices necessary to govern in the national interest. It’s no secret that the backrooms are where ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

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  • Our Time Is Now

    Power, Purpose, and the Fight for a Fair America

    by Stacey Abrams ...
    From New York Times bestselling author of Lead From The Outside and political leader Stacey Abrams, a blueprint to end voter suppression, empower our citizens, and take back our country."With each page, she inspires and empowers us to create systems that reflect a world in which all voices are heard and all people believe and feel that they matter." **—**Kerry WashingtonA recognized expert on fair ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • It's Even Worse Than It Looks

    How the American Constitutional System Collided with the New Politics of Extremism

    Acrimony and hyperpartisanship have seeped into every part of the political process. Congress is deadlocked and its approval ratings are at record lows. America's two main political parties have given up their traditions of compromise, endangering our very system of constitutional democracy. And one of these parties has taken on the role of insurgent outlier; the Republicans have become ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • It's Time to Fight Dirty

    How Democrats Can Build a Lasting Majority in American Politics

    by David Faris ...
    Series series Activist Citizens Library
    **An accessible, actionable blueprint for how Democrats can build lasting, durable change—without having to amend the Constitution.“American democracy could disappear altogether within our own lifetimes. Everyone who wants to avoid that catastrophe must read his book.” —Guardian**The American electoral system is clearly falling apart—more than one recent presidential race has resulted in the clear ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • The Hidden History of the War on Voting

    Who Stole Your Vote—and How To Get It Back

    by Thom Hartmann ...
    The New York Times–bestselling author explores America's history with voter disenfranchisement and how to ensure everyone has a voice in this democracy.In today's America, only a slim majority of people register to vote, and a large percentage of registered voters don't bother to show up: Donald Trump was elected by only twenty-six percent of eligible voters. Unfortunately, this is not a bug in ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Parties Versus the People

    How to Turn Republicans and Democrats Into Americans

    "An urgent and engaging look at how American politics have become the founding fathers' worst nightmare" ( The Daily Beast).America's political system is dysfunctional. We know it, yet the problem seems intractable—after every election, voters discover yet again that political "leaders" are simply quarreling in a never-ending battle between the two warring tribes.As a former congressman, Mickey ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Breaking Through Power

    It's Easier Than We Think

    by Ralph Nader ...
    Series series City Lights Open Media
    "Nader’s assessment of how concentrated wealth and power undermine democracy is clear and compelling, but it’s his substantive vision of how we ought to respond that makes Breaking Through Power essential reading. Written just before Donald Trump’s Electoral College victory, Nader’s latest book reads with even greater urgency now."--Yes MagazineIn Breaking Through Power, Ralph Nader draws from a ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Saving Democracy

    A User's Manual for Every American

    by David Pepper ...
    Laboratories of Autocracy walked through the hidden breadth, depth, and intensity of the countrywide attack on democracy. The final chapters outlined thirty steps necessary to fight back. One of the most common responses from readers was—“I skipped to the end. I wanted to get to the solutions.”Saving Democracy is the companion book that skips to the end:—It details how we all can and must play a ... Read more

    $5.63 CAD

  • Dollarocracy

    How the Money and Media Election Complex is Destroying America

    Fresh from the first 10 billion election campaign, two award-winning authors show how unbridled campaign spending defines our politics and, failing a dramatic intervention, signals the end of our democracy.Blending vivid reporting from the 2012 campaign trail and deep perspective from decades covering American and international media and politics, political journalist John Nichols and media critic ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Chaotic Neutral

    How the Democrats Lost Their Soul in the Center

    by Ed Burmila ...
    A recent history of the Democratic Party that identifies its chronic errors—the “pathologies” of the New Democratic mindset—and argues urgently against a return to the status quoWhy did the Democrats initially abandon their principles, and why haven’t they been able to grasp that they need a new strategy in the face of decades of diminishing returns? In Chaotic Neutral, political scientist Ed ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • The New Prince

    Machiavelli Updated for the Twenty-First Century

    by Dick Morris ...
    An update of Machiavelli's The Prince, written by New York Times bestselling author and political thinker Dick Morris.Niccolo Machiavelli's The Prince has been one of the most widely read and quoted book about politics during the past five centuries. But in the democracies of the information age, new ideas are needed to make government prosper through the next century. Now, Dick Morris, who ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • The Second Civil War

    How Extreme Partisanship Has Paralyzed Washington and Polarized America

    In recent years American politics has seemingly become much more partisan, more zero-sum, more vicious, and less able to confront the real problems our nation faces. What has happened?In The Second Civil War, respected political commentator Ronald Brownstein diagnoses the electoral, demographic, and institutional forces that have wreaked such change over the American political landscape, pulling ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD