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Kill Switch: The Rise of the Modern Senate and the Crippling of American Democracy

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80/100

Critics

37/100

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Author:

Adam Jentleson

Publisher:

Liveright

Date:

January 12, 2021

An insider's account of how politicians representing a radical white minority of Americans have used "the world's greatest deliberative body" to hijack our democracy.

What The Reviewers Say

Jennifer Szalai,
The New York Times
... impeccably timed.
Kathy Kiely,
The Washington Post
... a powerful brief.
Walter Clemens,
The New York Journal of Books
Jentleson offers incisive portraits of the powerful senators who laid the foundation for the modern Senate.
Jacob Sherman,
Library Journal
... informative and timely.