| DEMOCRACY AWAKENING Notes on the State of America Heather Cox Richardson New York: Viking, October 2023 |
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| ISBN-13: 978-0-593-65296-1 | ||||
| ISBN-10: 0-593-65296-7 | 286pp. | HC | $30.00 | |
| Part 1 UNDERMINING DEMOCRACY | ||
| CHAPTER 1 | American Conservatism | 3 |
| CHAPTER 2 | The Liberal Consensus | 11 |
| CHAPTER 3 | Bringing the Declaration of Independence to Life | 17 |
| CHAPTER 4 | Race and Taxes | 25 |
| CHAPTER 5 | Nixon and the Southern Strategy | 33 |
| CHAPTER 6 | Positive Polarization | 41 |
| CHAPTER 7 | The Reagan Revolution | 49 |
| CHAPTER 8 | Skewing the System | 59 |
| CHAPTER 9 | A New Global Project | 67 |
| CHAPTER 10 | Illegitimate Democracy | 73 |
| Part 2 THE AUTHORITARIAN EXPERIMENT | ||
| CHAPTER 11 | A Snapshot of America | 83 |
| CHAPTER 12 | A Shocking Event | 93 |
| CHAPTER 13 | Russia, Russia, Russia | 101 |
| CHAPTER 14 | The Streets of Charlottesville | 111 |
| CHAPTER 15 | The First Impeachment | 117 |
| CHAPTER 16 | Destabilizing the Government | 127 |
| CHAPTER 17 | Embracing Authoritarianism | 133 |
| CHAPTER 18 | Rewriting American History | 141 |
| CHAPTER 19 | January 6 | 149 |
| CHAPTER 20 | The Big Lie | 155 |
| Part 3 RECLAIMING AMERICA | ||
| CHAPTER 21 | What Is America? | 163 |
| CHAPTER 22 | Declaring Independence | 171 |
| CHAPTER 23 | The constitution | 179 |
| CHAPTER 24 | Expanding Democracy | 187 |
| CHAPTER 25 | Mudsills or Men | 195 |
| CHAPTER 26 | Of the People, by the People, for the People | 203 |
| CHAPTER 27 | America Renewed | 211 |
| CHAPTER 28 | A Progressive America | 221 |
| CHAPTER 29 | The Road to the New Deal | 231 |
| CHAPTER 30 | Democracy Awakening | 237 |
| CONCLUSION | Reclaiming our Country | 245 |
| Acknowledgments | 255 | |
| Notes | 257 | |
| Index | 275 | |
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