Fifteen books on why and how to preserve democracy

One title on Tertulia's list of "books that explain how we have arrived at a precarious state of democracy and what is to be done about it:"

Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America
Heather Cox Richardson

Historian and author of the popular newsletter, “Letters From an American,” Heather Cox Richardson’s latest provides a compelling description of how misleading histories and narratives have been weaponized by a small but influential groups of elites to push America away from democracy and towards authoritarianism. Virginia Heffernan of the Washington Post calls it, "The most lucid just-so story for Trump's rise I've ever heard. It's magisterial."

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--Marshal Zeringue