Our Nation at Risk

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Here is a wealth of wise and authoritative essays on threats to our democracy, present and past. Karen Greenberg and Julian Zelizer have assembled some of the nation's most brilliant scholars of politics, law, and history to explain the roots of the current crisis and how we might resolve it. A splendid volume of scholarly wisdom that anyone who cares about the American future should read. - Michael Kazin, author of What it Took to Win: A History of the Democratic Party Timely, innovative, and important. Our Nation at Risk is a brilliant collection of essays that thoughtfully reframes America's voting rights crisis as a national security issue. Anyone interested in the future of our democratic experiment will be interested in reading and learning from this essential book. - Peniel Emmaus Joseph, University of Texas at Austin An incredible book on one of the most important issues facing our democracy. With contributions by leading experts, this book gives us a thorough and easily-comprehensible account of the problem of election integrity and why it matters to our national security. If you want to understand how to make our country and elections more secure, this book is indispensable. - Guy-Uriel Emmanuel Charles, Harvard Law School Greenberg and Zelizer have pulled together an all-star cast of experts who, collectively, convey the sheer urgency of America's election-security crisis while tackling the subject in a deeply informed, level-headed way. Anyone concerned with the preservation of American democracy should carefully consider the array of remedies that this book proposes. - Mark Atwood Lawrence, University of Texas at Austin An authoritative and fitting contribution to the myth-busting genre. (The New York Times, Praise for Myth America, edited by Kevin Kruse and Julian Zelizer) These essays treat readers to wonderfully accessible, jargon-free writing. (The Washington Post, Praise for Myth America, edited by Kevin Kruse and Julian Zelizer) Newt Gingrich tied American politics to a rock and threw it down a well. That rock is still falling. Julian Zelizer's new book takes readers to the edge of that well, not to listen for the splash, but to grab the rope, and pull. - Jill Lepore (Praise for Burning Down the House by Julian Zelizer) Greenberg . . . a longtime critic of expanded state power after 9/11, draws a straight line between the early U.S. response to the attacks and the abuses of the Trump administration. - Quinta Jurecic (The Washington Post, Praise for Subtle Tools by Karen Greenberg) This is an expertly researched cri de coeur regarding recapturing the processes and procedures of American democracy, which Greenberg argues were lost in the 20 years between the 9/11 attacks and the present. (Choice, Praise for Subtle Tools by Karen Greenberg) Rogue Justice is Karen Greenberg's splendid new book about all the ways liberty was assaulted in America in the decade after the cataclysm of 11 September 2001. By connecting so many of the dots in the War on Terror, the author has made her own very important contribution. (The Guardian, Praise for Rogue Justice by Karen Greenberg) Detailed and meticulously researched... [an] excellent book... [and] an unflinching document. (Just Security, Praise for Rogue Justice by Karen Greenberg) My suspicion is that once you start reading these stellar entries, you will want to read (and teach) the rest. This book manages to achieve a rare thing. It is a work of reference that is enjoyable to read, even in the somewhat artificial way a reviewer must: cover to cover. (Legacy)