Electile Dysfunction: A Guide for Unaroused Voters

by Alan Dershowitz

Overview

The celebrity lawyer and #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Case Against Impeaching Trump offers his analysis of the 2016 presidential election.

In the months before the 2016 election, 81 percent of voters said they’d “feel afraid” if either Donald Trump or Hilary Clinton took office—and yet, those were the choices. The American electorate was plagued by a widespread feeling of impotence. And yet, it was one of the most important elections in generations.

In Electile Dysfunction, Harvard Law professor and frequent Fox News commentator Alan Dershowitz looks at what was at stake—with political extremism on the rise abroad and civil discourse on the decline in the US. He then assesses how each candidate related to basic domestic and foreign policy values

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780795350207
Publisher:	RosettaBooks
Publication date:	10/01/2020
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	130
File size:	402 KB

About the Author

Professor, Emeritus, Alan M. Dershowitz, the former Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at Harvard, was described by Newsweek as "the nation’s most peripatetic civil liberties lawyer and one of its most distinguished defenders of individual rights." He has published more than 1,000 articles in magazines, newspapers, journals and blogs such as the New York Times Magazine, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, the Harvard Law Review, the Yale Law Journal, Huffington Post, Newsmax, Jerusalem Post, and Ha’aretz. Professor Dershowitz is the author of thirty-five fiction and nonfiction works with a worldwide audience, including the New York Times #1 bestseller Chutzpah and five other national bestsellers. His autobiography, Taking the Stand: My Life in the Law, was published in October 2013 by Crown, a division of Random House. Earlier titles include the bestselling The Case For Israel; The Case For Peace; Blasphemy; Preemption; Finding Jefferson; and Shouting Fire.

Table of Contents

Introduction

1: The Causes of the Dysfunction
- Identity Politics, Intersectionality, and Bigotry: From the Campus to the Future
- The Canary in the Coal Mine: Israel
- Foreign Policy Beyond Israel
- The General Drift

2: The Virtues and Vices of Unchecked Populism
- Checking and Balancing Democracy
- Republican and Democratic Parties as Checks on Populism
- Can a Woman Be a Populist?
- European Populism: "Make Hungary Great!"

3: The Case Against Democracy by Default
- A Presidential Checklist

Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Notes

Editorial Reviews

"This book is a perfect combination of Alan's strengths. A terrible pun plus insightful commentary."
—Seth Meyers

“With his typical insight and flair for the counter-intuitive, Alan Dershowitz has written a book that will help us all understand the stakes—what we as a society have to gain, and lose—in the current presidential election. While you may not agree with everything he argues, his keen observations and passionate arguments make us think and see the election with fresh eyes.”
—Henry Louis Gates Jr.

“This book is so good I might even finish it.”
—Larry David

“If Dershowitz isn’t getting in your face about something, it’s as if he’s not doing his job.”
—The Boston Globe

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