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    Broken Government: How Republican Rule Destroyed the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Branches
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    Broken Government: How Republican Rule Destroyed the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Branches
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    Broken Government: How Republican Rule Destroyed the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Branches

    Written by John W. Dean

    Narrated by Paul Michael

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    The concluding volume of The New York Times bestselling trilogy

    One of today's most outspoken and respected political commentators asks: How can our democracy function when the key institutions of government no longer operate as intended by the Constitution? Stepping back to assess three decades of nearly continuous Republican rule, John W. Dean surveys the damage done to the three branches of government and traces their decline through the presidencies of Nixon, Ford, Reagan, Bush I , and Bush II. Speaking to what the average moderate citizen can do to combat extremism, authoritarianism, incompetence, and the Republicans? deliberate focus on polarizing social issues, Broken Government is a must-have book for voters this election year.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateSep 11, 2007
    ISBN9781429585590
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    Broken Government: How Republican Rule Destroyed the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Branches
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    John W. Dean

    John W. Dean served as Richard Nixon’s White House counsel for a thousand days. He is the author of two books recounting his days in the Nixon administration, Blind Ambition and Lost Honor, as well as Unmasking Deep Throat. A native of Marion, Ohio, he lives in Beverly Hills, California.

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      ohn Dean was, for much of his life, a Republican. But he decries the role of movement conservatives who are authoritarian, and goes through all three branches of the US government to show the damage that has been done to each.So serious does he find the damage to US Constitutional government that he thinks the Republicans, as they are now, cannot be trusted with power. "Antigovernment conservatives are bad at governing, [Alan] Wolfe explains, for "the same reason that vegetarians cannot prepare a world-class boeuf bourguignon: If you believe what you are called to do is wrong, you are not likely to do it very well".The litany of abuses is long. In the Congress, the GOP, whien in control, have created a highly partisan body that has sought to cut the Democrats' powers to have a say in the laws passed. In the Executive branch, the Republican presidents have tried to justify the President having near-monarchial powers, especially over defense and foreign affairs. In the judiciary, the court has reached a tipping point where it can gut protections for people, protect businesses, gut environmental protections, end Constitutional preotections in matters of religion and morality, and more.An eye-opening and well-argued book that completes what Dean calls an "informatl trilogy". The first two books are _Worse than Watergate_ and _Conservatives Without Conscience".

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