{"product_id":"crossing-the-rubicon-paperback-by-mark-danner","title":"Crossing the Rubicon Paperback by Mark Danner","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n                \n                    \n                        \u003ch2\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eProduct Details\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n                        \u003cul\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cb\u003eNew York Review Books\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e(2026-11-10)\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eLanguage\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003eEnglish\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e424\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003epages\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eISBN-13\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e9798896230892\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eItem Weight\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e493.29\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003egrams\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e21.49 x 14.53 x 2.24\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003ecm\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                        \u003c\/ul\u003e\n                        \u003cbr\u003e\n                        \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEssays on fascism, the war on terror, Abu Ghraib, Dick Cheney, the Iraq War, the Bush-Gore and Trump elections, and many other subjects from one of America's foremost political thinkers. These provocative pieces have been gathered from the early 2000s to the present and chronicle America's slide away from democracy to a new era of barbarism.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA lawless president, an unleashed plutocracy, an impotent Congress, and a blatantly partisan Supreme Court; growing political polarization and outrage alongside increasing economic inequality; military adventurism leading to failed war after failed war: after 250 years of America's exceptional experiment such are the signs of the times. And though the chaos, brutality, and squalor of Donald Trump's second term may bring our national crisis to a head, still greater turmoil could easily lie ahead. The current breakdown has been long in the making, prepared by years of hubris on high and outrage from below. There is no resolution in sight.\u003cbr\u003eMark Danner is one of America's finest reporters, and in \u003ci\u003eCrossing the Rubicon\u003c\/i\u003e he presents a blow-by-blow account of the erosion of democratic institutions and the inexorable rise of authoritarianism that the United States has undergone in the last quarter century. Starting from the Supreme Court's reckless validation of George Bush's victory in 2000—opening a wound to democratic legitimacy that festers to this day—Danner describes how America arrived at its present pathological condition. He diagnoses the Bush administration's wanton and foolish War on Terror, anatomizes how big money and social media have debased public life, and considers how the financial meltdown of 2008 and the election of Barack Obama led to the ascent of Trump. Danner's brilliant reporting on Trump's grisly January 6 assault on the Capitol and his subsequent return to power round out his account, as thoughtful as it is urgent, of a collapsing American political establishment and the new barbarism we face.\u003c\/p\u003e\n                        \u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n                        \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMark Danner\u003c\/b\u003e has been writing about foreign wars and American\u003cbr\u003epolitics for more than three decades. Among his books are \u003ci\u003eThe Massacre\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eat El Mozote\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eStripping Bare the Body\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eSpiral: Trapped in\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ethe Forever War\u003c\/i\u003e. He was a staff writer at \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e for many\u003cbr\u003eyears and is a longtime contributor to \u003ci\u003eThe New York Review of Books.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHis work has received many honors, including a National Magazine\u003cbr\u003eAward, three Overseas Press Awards, a Guggenheim, an Emmy, and\u003cbr\u003ea MacArthur Fellowship. 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