In this "agenda-setting" polemic, journalist and historian Eric Alterman explains what is really happening with the Obama presidency. While Obama's many compromises have disappointed liberals, Alterman argues that these concessions are largely due to a political system that is rigged against progressive change. These structural impediments to democracy have made the keeping of Obama's campaign promises all but impossible.
Brilliantly blending incisive political analysis with a clear agenda for change, Kabuki Democracy cuts through the cliches of conservative propaganda and lazy mainstream media analysis to demonstrate that genuine "change" will come to America only when people care enough to challenge the system.
- ISBN10 1568586655
- ISBN13 9781568586656
- Publish Date 14 May 2014 (first published 1 January 2011)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Avalon Publishing Group
- Imprint Nation Books
- Format eBook
- Pages 224
- Language English