Democracy Awakening by professor of history and podcaster Heather Cox Richardson, traces the history of anti-democratic tendencies in America that culminate in Trump and his fellow travelers. For those of you concerned about the future of democracy, this book is helpful in stringing together series of events, most of which were noted at the time they occurred but are not seen always seen as a progression, given our world of headlines and 24-hour news cycles. The author’s view is America has long been fighting to be a true democracy with actual equality. Famous documentary filmmaker Ken Burns says of the author and her book, “No one understands the warp and woof of the complicated tapestry that is the United States, no one apprehends the undertow and disparate forces that have directed the tides of American politics, no one forges the connections between then and now better than Heather Cox Richardson does. The result is a cogent, challenging, thoughtful, riveting , and beautiful narrative. Bravo!”
Here’s what Kirkus Reviews says:
https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/heather-cox-richardson/democracy-awakening/
