Book : Why Were polarized - Ezra Klein

-Titulo Original : Why Were Polarized

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Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster

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Product Description This New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller shows us that America s political system isn t broken. The truth is scarier: it s working exactly as designed. In this superbly researched (The Washington Post) and timely book, journalist Ezra Klein reveals how that system is polarizing us and how we are polarizing it with disastrous results. The American political system which includes everyone from voters to journalists to the president is full of rational actors making rational decisions given the incentives they face, writes political analyst Ezra Klein. We are a collection of functional parts whose efforts combine into a dysfunctional whole. A thoughtful, clear and persuasive analysis (The New York Times Book Review), Why We re Polarized reveals the structural and psychological forces behind America s descent into division and dysfunction. Neither a polemic nor a lament, this book offers a clear framework for understanding everything from Trump s rise to the Democratic Party s leftward shift to the politicization of everyday culture. America is polarized, first and foremost, by identity. Everyone engaged in American politics is engaged, at some level, in identity politics. Over the past fifty years in America, our partisan identities have merged with our racial, religious, geographic, ideological, and cultural identities. These merged identities have attained a weight that is breaking much in our politics and tearing at the bonds that hold this country together. Klein shows how and why American politics polarized around identity in the 20th century, and what that polarization did to the way we see the world and one another. And he traces the feedback loops between polarized political identities and polarized political institutions that are driving our system toward crisis. Well worth reading (New York magazine), this is an eye-opening (O, The Oprah Magazine) book that will change how you look at politics and perhaps at yourself. Review Polarization is the story of American politics today. It affects almost every aspect of American political life and has been studied by scholars from many different angles, with dozens of good historical and experimental approaches. Wouldn t it be great if someone would digest all these studies, synthesize them and produce a readable book that makes sense of it all? Ezra Klein has done just that with his compelling new work, Why We re Polarized. . . . Powerful [and] intelligent. Fareed Zakaria, CNN Why We re Polarized delivers. . . . What Klein adds especially to [is] our understanding of how we got here why Trump is more a vessel for our division than the cause, and why his departure will not provide any magical cure. . . . A thoughtful, clear and persuasive analysis. Norman Ornstein, New York Times Book Review Superbly researched and written . . . Why We re Polarized provides a highly useful guide to this most central of political puzzles, digesting mountains of social science research and presenting it in an engaging form. . . . An overall outstanding volume. Francis Fukuyama, The Washington Post Brilliant and wide-ranging. A book about what just might be our central, perhaps fatal problem. This is the kind of book you find yourself arguing with out loud as you read it and will stick in your head long after youve finished. Absolutely crucial for understanding this perilous moment. Chris Hayes, host of All In with Chris Hayes on MSNBC and author of A Colony in a Nation Klein s careful book explains how different groups of Americans can see politics through such different lenses, examining how various psychological mechanisms allow committed partisans to rationalize almost anything their party does. . . . This book fully displays the attributes that have made Klein s journalism so successful. Dan Hopkins, Washington Post Eye-opening . . . Klein s brilliant diagnosis and prescription provide a path to understanding