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Hidden Power: What You Need to Know to Save Our Democracy (Bk Currents) by Charles Derber is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Hidden Power: What You Need to Know to Save Our Democracy (Bk Currents) about?
Political parties and elections are increasingly political theatre, with real power hidden behind a smokescreen of propaganda, carefully manipulated cultural and religious wars, and voting rituals. But there is another kind of hidden power in America: the grassroots social movements working for progressive change. If the Democratic Party can ally with these movements, America can be returned to its people. Derber sees American history as a succession of regimes, each spanning several administrations. Since the end of the Civil War, regimes of hidden power, in which corporate interests control both parties behind the scenes, have alternated with more open, inclusive and democratic regimes. Derber details how and why these hidden power systems finally collapsed and what determined the types of regimes that succeeded them. Hidden Power reveals how the current regime, possibly the most corporate in history, has maintained power by intensifying the red/blue culture wars, supporting religious extremists, exploiting terrorism fears, and manipulating the electoral process. Will this latest corporate regime be replaced by one that is more progressive? Or it could turn even further right a
Who reads Hidden Power: What You Need to Know to Save Our Democracy (Bk Currents)?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Charles Derber
- Publisher
- Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Incorporated
- Published
- 2011
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9786612300509
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Business, Political Science, Fiction
- Rating
- 4.71 / 5 (6 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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