“A Washington insider pulls on years of experience to deliver a blistering critique from the condition of American federal government” (Kirkus Testimonials) in an authoritative scrutiny of the forces that work our society and a call to repair our democracy before it’s too past due.

If you’ve been watching the news headlines and worrying our democracy no longer works, this book, “a cri de coeur in one of our wisest Us citizens” (Michael Beschloss, Presidential Historian), will help you realize why you’re right. There is about Our Damaged Democracy: We individuals Must Work colossal focus of power in the Presidency. Congress can be crippled by partisanship and hostage to particular interest money. The Supreme Court and many lower federal government courts are riven by politics. Add politically fractured and fragile media, feckless campaign finance laws and regulations, rampant income and education inequality, and multicultural divisions, and it’s no wonder our market leaders can’t acknowledge anything or muster a solid majority of Americans behind them.

With decades at the very top in authorities, law, and business, Joseph A. Califano, Jr. has the capacity to be party-neutral in his evaluation and the perspective to see the big picture of our democracy. Using exposing anecdotes offering every modern chief executive and activities of both parties, he makes the urgent case that while we need not agree on all areas of politics, we perform have to trust one another and be worth that trust. He displays how, as engaged citizens, we are able to bring back systems of authorities that promote fairness and guard our independence. “It’s hard to claim with [Califano’s] evaluation” (THE BRAND NEW York Times Publication Review) how the longer we wait around to repair these complications, the more threatening our situation will become.