Hidden Power: What You Need to Know to Save Our Democracy (Bk Currents)
by Charles Derber
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Political parties and elections are increasingly political theatre, with real power hidden behind a smokescreen of propaganda, carefully manipulated cultural and religious wars, and voting rituals. But there is another kind of hidden power in America: the grassroots social movements working for progressive change. If the Democratic Party can ally with these movements, America can be returned to its people.Derber sees American history as a succession of regimes, each spanning several show more administrations. Since the end of the Civil War, regimes of hidden power, in which corporate interests control b show lessTags
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Charles Derber is the author of 20 books and Professor of Sociology at Boston College. He writes for and has been reviewed in The New York Times, The Washington Post. The Boston Globe. Time, Newsweek. Newsday, Truthout, and The Christian Science Monitor.
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- Politics and Government, Nonfiction, General Nonfiction, Business, Philosophy, Sociology
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- 320.973 — Society, Government, and Culture Political science Types of Government Political situation and conditions North America United States
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- JK467 .D468 — Political Science Political institutions and public administration (United States) Political institutions and public administration United States Government. Public administration
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