Why We’re Polarized by Ezra Klein
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Why We’re Polarized
- By: Ezra Klein
- Narrated by: Ezra Klein
- Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
- Categories: Politics & Social Sciences
Publisher’s Summary
A Barack Obama and a Bill Gates Summer Reading Pick 2022 A New York Times and Wall Street Journal Bestseller
America’s political system isn’t broken. The truth is scarier: it’s working exactly as designed.
In Why We’re Polarized, Ezra Klein reveals the structural and psychological forces behind America’s deep political divisions, revealing how a system filled with rational, functional parts can combine into a dysfunctional whole. Neither a polemic nor a lament, this book offers a clear framework for understanding everything from Trump’s rise to the Democratic Party’s leftward shift to the politicisation of everyday culture.
Klein shows how and why American politics polarised in the twentieth century, what that polarisation did to Americans’ views of the world and one another, and how feedback loops between polarised political identities and polarised political institutions drive the system toward crisis. This revelatory book will change how you look at politics, and perhaps at yourself.
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Rebecca Wilson
Fascinating and Insightful
I am from Australia and was intrigued and shocked in 2016 when Trump won the Presidential election. With my limited understanding of the American political system I couldn’t fathom how someone with Trumps repugnant character, morals and ideologies could make it to this position of power. This book has changed that. Ezra Klein effortlessly presents his incredible intelligence, experience and insights into this fascinating observation of the current political climate in the US. I thoroughly enjoyed this book.
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