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You Can't Be President: The Outrageous Barriers to Democracy in America
You Can't Be President The Outrageous Barriers to Democracy in America
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Praise for John MacArthur's Second Front:"A treasure-trove of evidence of official deception."-The New York Times Book Review"Wonderfully readable."-The New York Times"A brilliant piece of investigative journalism."-The Globe and Mail"A devastating expos."-The Nation"A provocative, well-honed polemic."-Newsw... more »After the debacle of the 2000 presidential election, many Americans were asking themselves if their vote really counted anymore. Yet does the problem go even deeper than that? Is America really a democracy anymore?In a rollicking piece of reportage based on years of reporting, Harper's Magazine Publisher John R. MacArthur examines how the system really works-and doesn't work-nowadays. Why is it that all the major candidates seem to be rich Ivy-Leaguers? Why is there so little difference between the Republicans and the Democrats on so many key issues? Does an outsider really have a chance?Covering the recent candidacies of Ned Lamont and Ralph Nader, reporting on local efforts to effect change, and examining funding and influence in our electoral system in general, MacArthur presents a clarion call to restructure electoral politics.John R. MacArthur, president and publisher of Harper's Magazine, is an award-winning journalist and author of the acclaimed books The Selling of "Free Trade": NAFTA, Washington, and the Subversion of American Democracy and Second Front: Censorship and Propaganda in the Gulf War.
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Praise for John MacArthur's Second Front:"A treasure-trove of evidence of official deception."-The New York Times Book Review"Wonderfully readable."-The New York Times"A brilliant piece of investigative journalism."-The Globe and Mail"A devastating expos."-The Nation"A provocative, well-honed polemic."-Newsw... more »After the debacle of the 2000 presidential election, many Americans were asking themselves if their vote really counted anymore. Yet does the problem go even deeper than that? Is America really a democracy anymore?In a rollicking piece of reportage based on years of reporting, Harper's Magazine Publisher John R. MacArthur examines how the system really works-and doesn't work-nowadays. Why is it that all the major candidates seem to be rich Ivy-Leaguers? Why is there so little difference between the Republicans and the Democrats on so many key issues? Does an outsider really have a chance?Covering the recent candidacies of Ned Lamont and Ralph Nader, reporting on local efforts to effect change, and examining funding and influence in our electoral system in general, MacArthur presents a clarion call to restructure electoral politics.John R. MacArthur, president and publisher of Harper's Magazine, is an award-winning journalist and author of the acclaimed books The Selling of "Free Trade": NAFTA, Washington, and the Subversion of American Democracy and Second Front: Censorship and Propaganda in the Gulf War.
ISBN-13: 9781933633602
ISBN-10: 1933633603
Publication Date: 9/1/2008
Pages: 224
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ISBN-10: 1933633603
Publication Date: 9/1/2008
Pages: 224
Rating: ?
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Genres:
- Politics & Social Sciences >> Government >> Elections
- Nonfiction >> Politics >> U.S.
- Politics & Social Sciences >> Politics & Government >> United States >> Executive Branch
