As Jentleson tells it, even the ghost of “Founding Father” James Madison, a man who was only a lukewarm defender of majority rule himself, must weep at what has been made of his once illustrious American version of the British House of Lords. Circumlocution Office by having several ingenious leaders figure out how to wield immense power without any need of a supporting majority-either within the national electorate or even among its own members.
As he painstakingly explains, the Senate has achieved its position as a sort of U.S.
A true believer in the idea of a thoughtful and just “upper branch,” it clearly pains Jentleson that what he conceives might have been a noble bastion of deliberative democracy eventually turned into the primary governmental shield of white supremacists. history and speech-writing skills to a job in Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s office, and, more recently, to authoring a highly readable book about the Senate’s steady descent into blatant iniquity. While Jentleson perehas been a leading foreign policy expert for years, working with Madeleine Albright, serving as head of the Sanford Institute of Public Policy at Duke University, and writing a number of highly regarded books on diplomacy, Jentleson filsopted to turn his knowledge of U.S. Then it was the dad’s turn again: he was a foreign policy consultant to Hillary Clinton during her 2016 run. A few years later, in 20, Adam was writing speeches for two other Democratic also-rans, John Kerry and John Edwards. Bruce Jentleson, the father of the author of the book being reviewed here, is a distinguished academic and was a campaign aide to Presidential Candidate Al Gore when his son Adam was studying history at Columbia. The Jentleson family has been involved in high-level American politics and policy for a long time. It was equally impossible to do the plainest right and to undo the plainest wrong without the express authority of the Circumlocution Office'.
Its finger was in the largest public pie, and in the smallest public tart. 'No public business of any kind could possibly be done at any time without the acquiescence of the Circumlocution Office. Adam Jentleson Kill Switch: The Rise of the Modern State and the Crippling of American Democracy.
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