" Brownstein knows what he�s talking about." -Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post "Provocative." -Allan Brinkley, The New York Times Book Review " [From] one of America�s best political journalists . . . a sparkling new book." -The Economist
Summary
In recent years American politics has seemingly become much more partisan, more zero-sum, more vicious, and
less able to confront the real problems our nation faces. What has happened?
In The Second Civil War, respected political commentator Ronald Brownstein diagnoses the electoral, demographic,
and institutional forces that have wreaked such change over the American political landscape, pulling politics
into the margins and leaving precious little common ground for compromise. The Second Civil War is not a book for
Democrats or Republicans but for all Americans who are disturbed by our current political dysfunction and hungry
for ways to understand it�and move beyond it.