Ira Shapiro

The Betrayal

How Mitch McConnell and the Senate Republicans Abandoned America

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Understanding the greatest catastrophic failure of American Government. In 2022, Ira Shapiro completed what Brooking scholar William A. Galston called "an epic trilogy" chronicling the disastrous decline of the once-great Senate. The Founding Fathers gave the Senate many functions, but it had one overriding responsibility: to provide a check against a dangerous president who threatened our democracy. Shapiro's gripping portrait of Mitch McConnell and the Senate Republicans' turning a blind eye to Donald Trump's abuses of power remains the definitive chronicle of the most catastrophic failure of government in American history. The updated edition carries the story forward into the Biden presidency and the efforts to restore bipartisanship in bitterly contentious times.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Updated edition
• Seitenzahl: 350
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Mai 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 569g
• ISBN-13: 9781538189245
• ISBN-10: 1538189240
• Artikelnr.: 68985800

Autorenporträt

By Ira Shapiro

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Quote Page
Preface
Chapter 1: The End of the Last Great Senate
Chapter 2: McConnell's Bitter Harvest
Chapter 3: Handling Trump
Chapter 4: Saving Brett Kavanaugh
Chapter 5: To Impeach or Not to Impeach
Chapter 6: The Sham Trial
Chapter 7: A Politicized Pandemic
Chapter 8: The Banana Republic Confirmation
Chapter 9: The Big Lie
Chapter 10: Acquitting the Insurrectionist
Chapter 11: Good Faith, Bad Faith