Hidden Power: What You Need to Know to Save Our Democracy

Hidden Power: What You Need to Know to Save Our Democracy by Charles Derber

Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers | 2005-09-01 | ISBN: 157675345X | PDF | 323 pages | 12 MB

American democracy, argues Charles Derber, is being subverted in the name of democracy itself. 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, American can be returned to its people.

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