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By John R. Macarthur

The writer of Harper’s Magazine provides “an capable, witty, and certainly pissed-off consultant” (Bookforum) to American politics
 
Barack Obama swept into the White residence in January 2009 nonetheless floating—or so it seemed to hundreds of thousands of his admirers—high above the crude realities of up to date American political existence. out of date landmarks—party loyalty, ideology, crusade fundraising, patronage, corruption, even race—seemed hopelessly superseded as issues of reference for figuring out what was once trumpeted as a brand new phenomenon within the nation’s civic history.

But approximately 4 years after Barack Obama’s election, elite pursuits in the USA stay victorious. approximately all measures of inequality proceed to upward thrust. And limitations to access to our political approach have reached approximately insurmountable heights.

Looking heavily at Congress, elections, and cash in politics, and sparing neither facet of the political spectrum, John R. Mac­Arthur gives you a devastating exposé of the entrenched pursuits and elites that make swap in America—even by means of a supposedly innovative president—so laborious. What, Mac­Arthur asks, may well swap this system?

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