{"title":"Ari Berman","description":"Ari Berman is a political correspondent for The Nation and an investigative journalism Fellow at the Nation Institute. His writing has also appeared in The New York Times and Rolling Stone, and he is a frequent commentator on MSNBC and NPR. His first book, Herding Donkeys: The Fight to Rebuild the Democratic Party and Reshape American Politics, was published in 2010. He lives in New York City.","products":[{"product_id":"give-us-the-ballot-the-modern-struggle-for-voting-rights-in-america-hardcover","title":"Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist, Nonfiction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Notable Book of 2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e Notable Nonfiction Book of 2015\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e Best Book of 2015\u003cbr\u003eA \u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews \u003c\/i\u003eBest Nonfiction Book of 2015\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn NPR Best Book of 2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCountless books have been written about the civil rights movement, but far less attention has been paid to what happened after the dramatic passage of the Voting Rights Act (VRA) in 1965 and the turbulent forces it unleashed. \u003ci\u003eGive Us the Ballot\u003c\/i\u003e tells this story for the first time. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this groundbreaking narrative history, Ari Berman charts both the transformation of American democracy under the VRA and the counterrevolution that has sought to limit voting rights, from 1965 to the present day. The act enfranchised millions of Americans and is widely regarded as the crowning achievement of the civil rights movement. And yet, fifty years later, we are still fighting heated battles over race, representation, and political power, with lawmakers devising new strategies to keep minorities out of the voting booth and with the Supreme Court declaring a key part of the Voting Rights Act unconstitutional. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBerman brings the struggle over voting rights to life through meticulous archival research, in-depth interviews with major figures in the debate, and incisive on-the-ground reporting. In vivid prose, he takes the reader from the demonstrations of the civil rights era to the halls of Congress to the chambers of the Supreme Court. At this important moment in history, \u003ci\u003eGive Us the Ballot\u003c\/i\u003e provides new insight into one of the most vital political and civil rights issues of our time.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51365893144799,"sku":"9780374158279","price":41.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/OolnwPROiF9780374158279.webp?v=1789073620"},{"product_id":"minority-rule-the-right-wing-attack-on-the-will-of-the-people-and-the-fight-to-resist-it-paperback","title":"Minority Rule: The Right-Wing Attack on the Will of the People--And the Fight to Resist It - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Voting rights journalist Ari Berman has been detailing threats to our democracy for years, and his new book \u003ci\u003eMinority Rule\u003c\/i\u003e is a timely and essential read. He expertly shows how Republicans are trying to rig our political system--and shares how we can fight back.\" --Hillary Clinton on X\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eA riveting account of the decades-long effort by reactionary white conservatives to undermine democracy and entrench their power\u003c\/b\u003e--\u003cb\u003eand the movement to stop them.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe mob that stormed the Capitol on January 6, 2021, represented an extreme form of the central danger facing American democracy today: a blatant disregard for the will of the majority. But this crisis didn't begin or end with Donald Trump's attempt to overturn the 2020 election. Through voter suppression, election subversion, gerrymandering, dark money, the takeover of the courts, and the whitewashing of history, reactionary white conservatives have strategically entrenched power in the face of a massive demographic and political shift. Ari Berman charts these efforts with sweeping historical research and incisive on-the-ground reporting, chronicling how a wide range of antidemocratic tactics interact with profound structural inequalities in institutions like the Electoral College, the Senate, and the Supreme Court to threaten the survival of representative government in America. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"The will of the people,\" wrote Thomas Jefferson in 1801, \"is the only legitimate foundation of any government.\" But that foundation is crumbling. Some counter-majoritarian measures were deliberately built into the Constitution, which was designed in part to benefit a small propertied upper class, but they have metastasized to a degree that the Founding Fathers could never have anticipated, undermining the very notion of \"a government of the people, by the people, and for the people.\" Chilling and revelatory, \u003ci\u003eMinority Rule \u003c\/i\u003eexposes the long history of the conflict between white supremacy and multiracial democracy that has reached a fever pitch today--while also telling the inspiring story of resistance to these regressive efforts.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51379001196767,"sku":"9781250371812","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/PNlZ4AqkjZ9781250371812.webp?v=1789264972"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/ari-berman.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}