![]() ![]() Every member of the US Senate should read it, and so should the rest of us., Adam Jentleson's Kill Switch is the most exquisitely timed book I've encountered in years. ![]() Combining prodigious research with the experience of serving at the right hand of Harry Reid, this is a necessary book for understanding why the Senate has become the key impediment to governance in America. An astute and maddening account of a broken institution and, in turn, a broken democracy., In Kill Switch, Adam Jentleson has created both an essential portrait of a Senate-and a political system-in crisis, as well as a crystal-clear analysis of how to save it. The Senate has been in a long state of decline, writes Jentleson, public affairs director at Democracy Forward and former deputy chief of staff to Sen. He ably punctures the propaganda its advocates created to defend it (primarily a tool to allow the South from being outnumbered in Congress by the North, first on slavery, and later on civil rights)., A provocative portrait of a dysfunctional-by design, it seems-U.S. ![]() Jentleson assesses the chamber without the institutional nostalgia that tends to infect its alumni. ![]() Harts the rise and repeated mutations of the filibuster. ![]()
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