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THE CASE FOR ENDING THE FILIBUSTER
"A truly excellent book... blistering and persuasive." --Ezra Klein, New York Times
An insider's account of how politicians representing a radical white minority of Americans have used "the world's greatest deliberative body" to hijack our democracy.
Brief description: Adam Jentleson is the former chief of staff to Senator John Fetterman and a former deputy chief of staff to Senator Harry Reid. A columnist for?GQ?and frequent political commentator on MSNBC, he is the author of Supermajority: How Democrats Can Build Lasting Power and Kill Switch: The Rise of the Modern Senate and the Crippling of American Democracy. He lives in Takoma Park, Maryland.
Review Quotes: Adam Jentleson's Kill Switch is the most exquisitely timed book I've encountered in years. Jentleson's explanation of the filibuster's ignominious roots, and of the mendacious arguments made today by its defenders, is careful and thorough and exacting. Every senator should be forced to read it and then reread it.--Michael Tomasky "New York Review of Books"