Democracy Awakening - Notes on the State of America
美国国情笔记
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内容简介 · · · · · ·
From historian and author of the popular daily newsletter LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN, a vital narrative that explains how America, once a beacon of democracy, now teeters on the brink of autocracy – and how we can turn back.
In the midst of the impeachment crisis of 2019, Heather Cox Richardson launched a daily Facebook essay providing the historical background of the daily torrent of news. It soon turned into a newsletter and its readership ballooned to more than 2 million dedicated readers who rely on her plainspoken and informed take on the present and past in America.
In Democracy Awakening, Richardson crafts a compelling and original narrative, explaining how, over the decades, a small group of wealthy people have made war on American ideals. By weaponizing language and promoting false history they have led us into authoritarianism – creating a disaffected population and then promising to recreate an imagined past where those people could feel important again. She argues that taking our country back starts by remembering the elements of the nation’s true history that marginalized Americans have always upheld. Their dedication to the principles on which this nation was founded has enabled us to renew and expand our commitment to democracy in the past. Richardson sees this history as a roadmap for the nation’s future.
Richardson’s talent is to wrangle our giant, meandering, and confusing news feed into a coherent story that singles out what we should pay attention to, what the precedents are, and what possible paths lie ahead. In her trademark calm prose, she is realistic and optimistic about the future of democracy. Her command of history allows her to pivot effortlessly from the Founders to the abolitionists to Reconstruction to Goldwater to Mitch McConnell, highlighting the political legacies of the New Deal, the lingering fears of socialism, the death of the liberal consensus and birth of “movement conservatism.”
Many books tell us what has happened over the last five years. Democracy Awakening explains how we got to this perilous point, what our history really tells us about ourselves, and what the future of democracy can be.
来自历史学家和流行日报《美国人的来信》的作者，这篇重要的叙述解释了美国这个曾经的民主灯塔现在如何在独裁的边缘摇摇欲坠，以及我们如何能够回头。
在 2019 年弹劾危机期间，希瑟·考克斯·理查森 (Heather Cox Richardson) 在 Facebook 上发表了一篇每日文章，提供每日新闻洪流的历史背景。它很快变成了一份时事通讯，其读者群激增至超过 200 万忠实读者，这些读者依赖于她对美国现在和过去的直言不讳和见多识广的看法。
在《民主觉醒》中，理查森精心设计了一个引人入胜的原创叙述，解释了几十年来一小群富人如何对美国理想发动战争。通过将语言武器化和宣扬虚假历史，他们把我们带入了威权主义——创造了一群心怀不满的民众，然后承诺重建一个想象中的过去，让这些人再次感到自己很重要。她认为，要夺回我们的国家，首先要记住边缘化美国人一直坚持的国家真实历史的要素。他们对建国原则的奉献使我们能够更新和扩大我们过去对民主的承诺。理查森将这段历史视为国家未来的路线图。
理查森的才华在于将我们庞大的、曲折的、令人困惑的新闻源整理成一个连贯的故事，挑出我们应该关注的内容、先例是什么以及未来可能的道路。在她标志性的冷静散文中，她对民主的未来持现实和乐观的态度。她对历史的掌握使她能够毫不费力地从开国元勋到废奴主义者，再到重建时期的戈德华特，再到米奇·麦康奈尔，强调了新政的政治遗产、对社会主义挥之不去的恐惧、自由主义共识的消亡以及“运动保守主义”的诞生。 ”。
许多书籍告诉我们过去五年发生了什么。 《民主觉醒》解释了我们如何走到了这个危险的地步，我们的历史真正告诉我们关于我们自己的事情，以及民主的未来会是什么样。
作者简介 · · · · · ·
Heather Cox Richardson is a professor of history at Boston College and an expert on American political and economic history. She is the author of seven books, including the award-winning How the South Won the Civil War. Her work has appeared in The Washington Post, The New York Times, and The Guardian, among other outlets. Her widely read newsletter, Letters from an American, synthesizes history and modern political issues.
希瑟·考克斯·理查森是波士顿学院历史学教授，也是美国政治和经济史专家。她是七本书的作者，包括获奖的《南方如何赢得内战》。她的作品曾出现在《华盛顿邮报》、《纽约时报》和《卫报》等媒体上。她的时事通讯《一位美国人的来信》被广泛阅读，综合了历史和现代政治问题。
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