Sunday, October 04, 2020

An essential election reading list

At B&N Reads, Sallye Leventhal and Kat Sarfas curated a reading list for everything you need to know for the upcoming 2020 election. One title on the list:
Four Threats: The Recurring Crises of American Democracy

Suzanne Mettler, Robert C. Lieberman

Four Threats highlights four historical moments in American history that illustrate four inherent threats to our democratic “experiment.” As a democracy, we’ve weathered one crisis at a time, on occasion perhaps two such crises together, but the sobering takeaway is that we are now facing a simultaneous four-front assault. How we answer this challenge is not an idle question.
Read about another entry on the list.

The Page 99 Test: Four Threats.

--Marshal Zeringue