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  • If We Can Keep It

  • How the Republic Collapsed and How it Might Be Saved
  • Written by: Michael Tomasky
  • Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
  • Length: 10 hrs and 33 mins

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If We Can Keep It

Written by: Michael Tomasky
Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
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Publisher's Summary

A game-changing account of the deep roots of political polarization in America, including an audacious 14-point agenda for how to fix it.   

Why has American politics fallen into such a state of horrible dysfunction? Can it ever be fixed? These are the questions that motivate Michael Tomasky’s deeply original examination into the origins of our hopelessly polarized nation. “One of America’s finest political commentators” (Michael J. Sandel), Tomasky ranges across centuries and disciplines to show how America has almost always had two dominant parties that are existentially, and often violently, opposed. When he turns to our current era, he does so with striking insight that will challenge listeners to reexamine what they thought they knew. Finally, not content merely to diagnose these problems, Tomasky offers a provocative agenda for how we can help fix our broken political system - from ranked-choice voting and at-large congressional elections to expanding high school civics education nationwide.   

Combining revelatory data with trenchant analysis, Tomasky tells us how the nation broke apart and points us toward a more hopeful political future.

©2019 Michael Tomasky (P)2019 Audible, Inc.

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