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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Jentleson, Adam, author.     Subjects     United States. Congress. Senate.     Representative government and representation -- United States.     Proportional representation -- United States.     Democracy -- United States.     Filibusters (Political science) -- United States.     United States -- Politics and government -- 1945-1989.     United States -- Politics and government -- 1989-     Browse Catalog     by author:      Jentleson, Adam, author.       by title:      Kill switch : the ri...         MARC Display

Kill switch : the rise of the modern Senate and the crippling of American democracy / Adam Jentleson. by Jentleson, Adam, author. New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, [2021] Subjects United States. Congress. Senate.   Representative government and representation -- United States.   Proportional representation -- United States.   Democracy -- United States.   Filibusters (Political science) -- United States.   United States -- Politics and government -- 1945-1989.   United States -- Politics and government -- 1989- ISBN:  9781631497773 (hardcover) : 1631497774 (hardcover) : Description:  x, 325 pages ; 24 cm Edition:  First edition. Contents:  Introduction: The little harm thesis -- Rise of the filibuster. Birth of a notion ; "Victorious in the midst of unbroken defeats" ; Dawn of the supermajority ; An idea whose time has come -- Tyranny of the minority. The superminority ; Outside in ; Means of control ; What it takes ; The uniter -- Conclusion: How to save the Senate. Requests:  0 Summary:  "An insider's account of how politicians representing a radical minority of Americans are using "the greatest deliberative body in the world" to hijack our democracy. Every major decision governing our diverse, majority-female, and increasingly liberal country bears the stamp of the US Senate, yet the Senate allows an almost exclusively white, predominantly male, and radically conservative minority of the American electorate to impose its will on the rest of us. How did we get to this point? In Kill Switch, Adam Jentleson argues that shifting demographics alone cannot explain how Mitch McConnell harnessed the Senate and turned it into a powerful weapon of minority rule. As Jentleson shows, since the 1950s, a free-flowing body of relative equals has devolved into a rigidly hierarchical, polarized institution, with both Democrats and Republicans to blame. The current GOP has merely used the methods pioneered by its predecessors, though to newly extreme ends. In a work for readers of How Democracies Die and even Master of the Senate, Jentleson makes clear that, without a reevaluation of Senate practices-starting with ending the filibuster-we face the prospect of permanent minority rule in America"--   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status Due Date   Aina Haina Public Library Adult Nonfiction 328.73071 Je Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Hawaii Kai Public Library Adult Nonfiction 328.73071 Je Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Hawaii State Library Social Science & Philosophy 328.73071 Je Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Kalihi-Palama Public Library Adult Nonfiction 328.7307 Je Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Kapolei Public Library Adult Nonfiction 328.73071 Je Checked out 05/30/2024 Add Copy to MyList Makawao Public Library Adult Nonfiction 328.73071 Je Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Manoa Public Library Adult Nonfiction 328.73071 Je Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Waikiki-Kapahulu Public Library Adult Nonfiction 328.73071 Je Checked In   Add Copy to MyList

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