Klein Ezra
Klein Ezra - Why We're Polarized - Paperback
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Description: ONE OF Barack OBAM as Favorite Books OF 2022 One of Bill Gates's 5 books to read this summer this New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller shows us that America's political system isn t broken. The truth is scarier: it's working exactly as designed. In this superbly researched (The Washington Post) and timely book journalist Ezra Klein reveals how that system is polarizing us and how we are polarizing it with disastrous results. The American political system which includes everyone from voters to journalists to the president is full of rational actors making rational decisions given the incentives they face writes political analyst Ezra Klein. We are a collection of functional parts whose efforts combine into a dysfunctional whole. A thoughtful clear and persuasive analysis (The New York Times Book Review) Why We re Polarized reveals the structural and psychological forces behind America's descent into division and dysfunction. Neither a polemic nor a lament this book offers a clear framework for understanding everything from Trump's rise to the Democratic Party's leftward shift to the politicization of everyday culture. America is polarized first and foremost by identity. Everyone engaged in American politics is engaged at some level in identity politics. Over the past fifty years in America our partisan identities have merged with our racial religious geographic ideological and cultural identities. These merged identities have attained a weight that is breaking much in our politics and tearing at the bonds that hold this country together. Klein shows how and why American politics polarized around identity in the 20th century and what that polarization did to the way we see the world and one another. And he traces the feedback loops between polarized political identities and polarized political institutions that are driving our system toward crisis. Well worth reading (New York magazine) this is an eye - opening (O The Oprah Magazine) book that will change how you look at politics and perhaps at yourself.
Title: Why We're Polarized
Author(s): Klein Ezra
Publisher: Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster
Barcode: 9781476700366
Pages: 352 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 6/15/2021
Category: Conservatism & Right-Of-Centre Democratic Ideologies
Description: ONE OF Barack OBAM as Favorite Books OF 2022 One of Bill Gates's 5 books to read this summer this New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller shows us that America's political system isn t broken. The truth is scarier: it's working exactly as designed. In this superbly researched (The Washington Post) and timely book journalist Ezra Klein reveals how that system is polarizing us and how we are polarizing it with disastrous results. The American political system which includes everyone from voters to journalists to the president is full of rational actors making rational decisions given the incentives they face writes political analyst Ezra Klein. We are a collection of functional parts whose efforts combine into a dysfunctional whole. A thoughtful clear and persuasive analysis (The New York Times Book Review) Why We re Polarized reveals the structural and psychological forces behind America's descent into division and dysfunction. Neither a polemic nor a lament this book offers a clear framework for understanding everything from Trump's rise to the Democratic Party's leftward shift to the politicization of everyday culture. America is polarized first and foremost by identity. Everyone engaged in American politics is engaged at some level in identity politics. Over the past fifty years in America our partisan identities have merged with our racial religious geographic ideological and cultural identities. These merged identities have attained a weight that is breaking much in our politics and tearing at the bonds that hold this country together. Klein shows how and why American politics polarized around identity in the 20th century and what that polarization did to the way we see the world and one another. And he traces the feedback loops between polarized political identities and polarized political institutions that are driving our system toward crisis. Well worth reading (New York magazine) this is an eye - opening (O The Oprah Magazine) book that will change how you look at politics and perhaps at yourself.
Title: Why We're Polarized
Author(s): Klein Ezra
Publisher: Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster
Barcode: 9781476700366
Pages: 352 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 6/15/2021
Category: Conservatism & Right-Of-Centre Democratic Ideologies
