Books like Politics Lost by Joe Klein

A former senator argues for a politics of faith, inclusiveness, and justice, examining money, media, economic insecurity, racial tensions, and global threats while urging a return to constitutional principles to heal America.

"A look how social scientists and renegade thinkers are imposing a new data-driven order on the American political campaign--an industry previously run on gut instinct"--

"Although both revolutions professed similar Enlightenment ideals of freedom, equality, and justice, there were dramatic differences. The Americans were content to preserve many aspects of their English heritage; the French sought a complete break with a thousand years of history. The Americans accepted nonviolent political conflict; the French valued unity above all. The Americans emphasized individual rights, while the French stressed public order and cohesion."--BOOK JACKET. "Why did the two revolutions follow such different trajectories? What influence have the two different visions of democracy had on modern history? And what lessons do they offer us about democracy today? Susan Dunn traces the legacies of the two great revolutions through modern history and up to the revolutionary movements of our own time."--BOOK JACKET.

Christopher Lasch argues that modern American democracy is endangered by professional and managerial elites who isolate themselves, ignore the middle class, and erode democratic ideals.