Losing Our Democracy: How Bush, the Far Right and Big Business are Betraying Americans for Power and Profit - Hardcover

Celebrated author and lawyer Mark Green, who coauthored the New York Times bestseller The Book on Bush, now takes aim at the most chilling and dangerous trend in America today: the betrayal of America's democracy by its own leaders. In a perpetual quest for more money to line their pockets and more power to wield against average citizens, a coalition of big business, the Far and Religious Right and, most terrifyingly, Bush & Co. are assaulting our rights, our liberties, our very democratic system of government by, of, and for the people.

With his classic blend of careful reasoning and brilliant style, Mark Green provides anecdotes and ample evidence of a systematic attack being waged by Americans against America! From voter suppression to religious, corporate and legislative tyranny, from the problem of purchased politicians to the Far Right's Stone Age approach to race and civil rights, this is a call to arms for all real patriots who have had enough of reactionary politicians who wave the flag while they trample on its values.

Mark Green is the author or editor of 20 other books, including the #1 New York Times bestseller, Who Runs Congress? (4 editions) and What We Stand For: A Program for Progressive Patriotism. He has written numerous articles for newspapers and magazines like the New York Times, the Washington Post, The Nation and the New Republic. He has appeared over 200 times as a regular host on CNNís Crossfire and as the ìExaminerî on PBSís Firing Line with William F. Buckley, and more recently on a weekly news program on NY1 with Ed Koch and Al DíAmato.

Mark Green was elected New York Cityís first public advocate, a position he held from 1994 to 2001, and was the cityís 2001 Democratic nominee for mayor. He currently is president of the New Democracy Project, teaches at New York University and is seeking the office of New York State Attorney General.

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Timothy Greenfield-Sanders.