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Kill SwitchAdam Jentleson

Kill Switch

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"An insider's account of how politicians representing a radical minority of Americans are using "the greatest deliberative body in the world" to hijack our democracy. Every major decision governing our diverse, majority-female, and increasingly liberal country bears the stamp of the US Senate, yet the Senate allows an almost exclusively white, predominantly male, and radically conservative minority of the American electorate to impose its will on the rest of us. How did we get to this point? In Kill Switch, Adam Jentleson argues that shifting demographics alone cannot explain how Mitch…

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3 editions
  • Audiobook · English · 2021
    Highbridge Audio and Blackstone Publishing · 1 pages · 9781665174244
  • Ebook · English · 2021
    Liveright Publishing Corporation · 9781631497780
  • Other · English · 2021
    Liveright Publishing Corporation · 272 pages · 9781631497773
New York Times reviewedUnited states, politics and governmentProportional representationDemocracyFilibusters (Political science)Politics and governmentPOLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / GeneralUnited States. Congress. Senate