Broken, Ira Shapiro
Broken, Ira Shapiro
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Broken
Can the Senate Save Itself and the Country?

Author: Ira Shapiro

Narrator: Stephen R. Thorne

Unabridged: 12 hr 19 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 01/30/2018

Synopsis

While the hyper-partisanship in Washington that has stunned the world has been building for decades, Ira Shapiro argues that the U.S. Senate has suffered most acutely from the loss of its political center. In Broken, Ira Shapiro, a former senior Senate staffer and author of the critically-acclaimed book The Last Great Senate, offers an expert's account of some of the most prominent battles of the past decade and lays out what must be done to restore the Senate's lost luster. With a narrative that runs right through the first six months of the Trump presidency, Broken is a must-listen book for all concerned about the state of our politics and the future of our country.

About Ira Shapiro

Ira Shapiro, author of The Last Great Senate: Courage and Statesmanship in Times of Crisis, has worked in senior positions in the U.S. Senate and served as a leading U.S. trade negotiator, ultimately earning the rank of ambassador. He resides in Potomac, Maryland.

Reviews

Goodreads review by CoachJim on August 31, 2022

If there was ever a time that the American people needed a Senate at its best, it would be during the presidency of Donald Trump. Yet the Senate that would deal with President Donald Trump had not been at its best for decades. After a long period of decline, the Senate bore little resemblance to the......more

Goodreads review by Scott on August 01, 2022

Ira Shapiro earned his stripes as a critic of the United States Senate - he's a true insider, with a 45-year DC career spent largely working with and for Senators on the Democrats' side of the aisle. With "Broken," Shapiro offers a condensed history of the self-assessed "World's Greatest Deliberativ......more

Goodreads review by Kinzer on May 06, 2019

Why am I torturing myself like this? Why am I obsessively reading about Congress, Presidents, Impeachment? Spoiler alert: it gets a lot worse. In brief: This is Ira Shapiro's third book about the Senate covering the period from the mid-19th Century to the Trump era. In this book he focuses on the le......more

Goodreads review by Anthony on March 23, 2018

Full disclosure: Ira is a colleague An intimate portrait of the Senate's decline, picking up where his previous book left off. The book is a fascinating tour through the senate's role in all the great political crises in the last 30 years, and is never more scathing than when looking at the failures......more

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