Description
With keen insight, Vox journalist Zack Beauchamp traces how a reactionary antidemocratic ethos born and bred in America has come to infect democracies around the world.
There is a fundamental contradiction at the heart of American politics that has endured since our nations birth. In The Reactionary Spirit, Zack Beauchamp explains what he calls the reactionary spirit: as strides towards true democracy are made, there is always a faction that reacts by seeking to undermine them and thereby resist change.
Brilliantly combining political history and reportage, Beauchamp reveals how the United States was the birthplace of this strange and harrowing authoritarian style, and why were now seeing its evolution in diverse nations including Hungary, Israel, and India.
The Reactionary Spirit paints a vivid, alarming picture that illuminates not only whats happening to democracy globally, but also what we must do to protect itwhile we still can.
Author: Zack Beauchamp
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Published: 07/16/2024
Pages: 272
Weight: 1.03lbs
Size: 9.55h x 6.21w x 0.97d
ISBN: 9781541704411
Language: English
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