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**An urgent, historically-grounded take on the four major factors that undermine American democracy, and what we can do to address them.** While many Americans despair of the current state of U.S. politics, most assume that our system of government and democracy itself are invulnerable to decay. Yet when we examine the past, we find that the United States has undergone repeated crises of democracy, from the earliest days of the republic to the present. In __Four Threats__, Suzanne Mettler and Robert C. Lieberman explore five moments in history when democracy in the U.S. was under siege: the 1790s, the Civil War, the Gilded Age, the Depression, and Watergate. These episodes risked profound―even fatal―damage to the American democratic experiment. From this history, four distinct characteristics of disruption emerge. Political polarization, racism and nativism, economic inequality, and excessive executive power―alone or in combination―have threatened the survival of the republic, but it has survived―so far. What is unique, and alarming, about the present moment in American politics is that all four conditions exist. This convergence marks the contemporary era as a grave moment for dem

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Author

Suzanne Mettler; Robert C Lieberman; Recorded Books, Inc

Publisher

St. Martin's Press

Published

2020

Language

EN

ISBN

9781250244420

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Political Science, Government & Politics, Social_sciences

Rating

4.5 / 5 (213 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14