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Pros

The book is a comprehensive analysis of causes of our dysfunctional government revealing the vested interests benefitting from the dysfunction.

Avlon says it is time that another party replace the gop - a party that is moderate, pragmatic, and realistic in its political dealings (one that embraces compromise).



Cons

The authors make the common argument that only knowledgeable folks should be included in any argument, which sounds ok superficially, but who decides who is knowledgeable? The last 100 pages offer ridiculous solutions that even the authors admit have ...  Read More

Authors of a new book suggest that republicans are hostage-takers. They argue that if republicans would just accept the democratic point of view on every issue we would have a balanced budget and a more civil society.

mannstein doesn't mention that 80 democrats belong to the socialist caucus.

O&m fail to acknowledge that it was obama who torpedoed a bigger deal during negotiations over the debt ceiling. Long lines, care greatly delayed or completely denied are the norm.

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Quality


This book gave me a real education with the political process


They refuse to work with the democrats as in years past


Thats the conclusion congressional scholars thomas mann and norman ornstein reach in 34its even worse than it looks how the ame...  Read More

Price


I purchased the revised edition and while the update is helpful it was not worth the price of a new book

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    political, american, great and good.
  • Our AI detects a high amount of irrelevant reviews for this listing. A number of the reviews included in this product may belong to other variations, editions or versions that may not be representative of the current product being sold.
  • Our engine has profiled the reviewer patterns and has determined that there is high deception involved.
  • Our engine has analyzed and discovered that 24.0% of the reviews are reliable.
  • This product had a total of 800 reviews as of our last analysis date on Oct 17 2023.

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    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    I would not have bought this book if i had known it is not a whole new edition to the 2012 original edition


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    It only adds a new forward and an afterword to the original edition


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    The suggestions how to fix the problem in the original edition have been overrun by even further extremism in the republican party


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    I hoped the new edition would offer new suggestions


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    It basically offers the same ideas and says they will be harder to implement


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    The book raises the question of why this deliberate strategy of obstruction has been dignified by the media as normal politics which contributes to the lowering of public opinion of same


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    But alas in far too many cases it does not and indifference and even apathy reigns


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    I purchased the revised edition and while the update is helpful it was not worth the price of a new book

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