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The Demagogue’s Playbook audiobook
- By: Eric A. Posner
- Narrator: Peter Berkrot
- Category: History, Revolutionary Period (1775-1800), United States
- Length: 8 hours 30 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: June 30, 2020
- Language: English
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The Demagogue’s Playbook Audiobook Summary
“Narrator Peter Berkrot’s vocal tone has a flinty mid-20th century quality that works well with this historical review of how demagogues in the U.S. have repeatedly exploited populism since the founding of the nation. Serious but never overwrought, he has a lovely way with phrasing that enhances the richness of these sentences while deftly moderating the undercurrent of alarm in the writing.” — AudioFile Magazine, Earphones Award winner
What Happens to Democracy When a Demagogue Comes to Power?
“It is hard to imagine understanding the Trump presidency and its significance without reading this book.” — Bob Bauer, Former Chief Counsel to President Barack Obama
What–and who–is a demagogue? How did America’s Founders envision the presidency? What should a constitutional democracy look like–and how can it be fixed when it appears to be broken?
Something is definitely wrong with Donald Trump’s presidency, but what exactly? The extraordinary negative reaction to Trump’s election–by conservative intellectuals, liberals, Democrats, and global leaders alike–goes beyond ordinary partisan and policy disagreements. It reflects genuine fear about the vitality of our constitutional system. The Founders, reaching back to classical precedents, feared that their experiment in mass self-government could produce a demagogue: a charismatic ruler who would gain and hold on to power by manipulating the public rather than by advancing the public good.
President Trump, who has played to the mob and attacked institutions from the judiciary to the press, appears to embody these ideas. How can we move past his rhetoric and maintain faith in our great nation?
In The Demagogue’s Playbook, acclaimed legal scholar Eric A. Posner offers a blueprint for how America can prevent the rise of another demagogue and protect the features of a democracy that help it thrive–and restore national greatness, for one and all.
A Macmillan Audio production from All Points Books
“Cuts through the hyperbole and hysteria that often distorts assessments of our republic, particularly at this time.” –Alan Taylor, winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for History
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The Demagogue’s Playbook Audiobook Narrator
Peter Berkrot is the narrator of The Demagogue’s Playbook audiobook that was written by Eric A. Posner
Peter Berkrot is an audiobook narrator, stage, screen and television actor, and acting coach. He has narrated over 100 works that span a range of genres, including fiction, non-fiction, thriller, and children’s titles. His audiobook credits include works of Alan Glynn, Eric Van Lustbader, Nora Roberts and Dean Koontz. In film and television, he appeared in Caddyshack, America’s Most Wanted, and Unsolved Mysteries. He performs in regional and New York theaters and directs the New Voices acting school.
About the Author(s) of The Demagogue’s Playbook
Eric A. Posner is the author of The Demagogue’s Playbook
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The Demagogue’s Playbook Full Details
| Narrator | Peter Berkrot |
| Length | 8 hours 30 minutes |
| Author | Eric A. Posner |
| Category | |
| Publisher | Macmillan Audio |
| Release date | June 30, 2020 |
| ISBN | 9781250752956 |
Subjects
The publisher of the The Demagogue’s Playbook is Macmillan Audio. includes the following subjects: The BISAC Subject Code is History, Revolutionary Period (1775-1800), United States
Additional info
The publisher of the The Demagogue’s Playbook is Macmillan Audio. The imprint is Macmillan Audio. It is supplied by Macmillan Audio. The ISBN-13 is 9781250752956.
Global Availability
This book is only available in the United States.
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