Corey Brettschneider: The Presidents and the People, Kartoniert / Broschiert
The Presidents and the People
- Five Leaders Who Threatened Democracy and the Citizens Who Fought to Defend It
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- Verlag:
- W. W. Norton & Company, 09/2025
- Einband:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Sprache:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9781324110880
- Artikelnummer:
- 11997302
- Umfang:
- 368 Seiten
- Erscheinungstermin:
- 16.9.2025
- Hinweis
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Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
Klappentext
Imagine an American president who imprisoned critics, spread a culture of white supremacy and tried to upend the law so that he could commit crimes with impunity. In this propulsive and eminently readable history, Corey Brettschneider provides a thoroughly researched account of assaults on democracy by not one such president but five: John Adams, James Buchanan, Andrew Johnson, Woodrow Wilson and Richard Nixon.
Brettschneider shows that these presidents didn't have the last word; citizen movements brought the United States back from the precipice by appealing to a democratic understanding of the Constitution and pressuring subsequent reform-minded presidents to realise the promise of "We the People". This is a book about citizens-Frederick Douglass, Ida B. Wells, Daniel Ellsberg and more-who fought back against presidential abuses of power and give hope about the possibilities of restoring democracy.
