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The persuaders : at the front lines of the fight for hearts, minds, and democracy / Anand Giridharadas.
"An insider account of activists, politicians, educators, and everyday citizens working to change minds, bridge divisions, and save democracy"-- Provided by publisher.
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- ISBN: 9780593318997 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: 335 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2022.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | "This is a Borzoi book"--Title page verso. Includes index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Prologue: The war on persuasion -- "The waking among the woke" -- Can love change a mind? -- A movement that grows -- The inside-outside game -- The art of messaging -- The vaccine against lies -- Meaning-making at the door. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Stroud Branch | 320.973 Gir | 31681010297174 | NONFIC | Available | - |
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"An insider account of activists, politicians, educators, and everyday citizens working to change minds, bridge divisions, and save democracy"-- - Baker & Taylor
Taking us inside movements and battles for justice, seeking out the dissenters who continue to champion persuasion in an age of polarization, the subjects of this book grapple with how to call out threats and injustices while calling in those who donât agree with them but just might one day. - Random House, Inc.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ⢠An insider account of activists, politicians, educators, and everyday citizens working to change minds, bridge divisions, and fight for democracyâfrom disinformation fighters to a leader of Black Lives Matter to Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and moreâby the best-selling author of Winners Take All and award-winning former New York Times columnist
âAnand Giridharadas shows the way we get real progressive change in Americaâby refusing to write others off, building more welcoming movements, and rededicating ourselves to the work of changing minds.â âRobert B. Reich, best-selling author of The System
The lifeblood of any free society is persuasion: changing other peopleâs minds in order to change things. But America is suffering a crisis of faith in persuasion that is putting its democracy and the planet itself at risk. Americans increasingly write one another off instead of seeking to win one another over. Debates are framed in moralistic terms, with enemies battling the righteous. Movements for justice build barriers to entry, instead of on-ramps. Political parties focus on mobilizing the faithful rather than wooing the skeptical. And leaders who seek to forge coalitions are labeled sellouts.
In The Persuaders, Anand Giridharadas takes us inside these movements and battles, seeking out the dissenters who continue to champion persuasion in an age of polarization. We meet a leader of Black Lives Matter; a trailblazer in the feminist resistance to Trumpism; white parents at a seminar on raising adopted children of color; Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez; a team of door knockers with an uncanny formula for changing minds on immigration; an ex-cult member turned QAnon deprogrammer; and, hovering menacingly offstage, Russian operatives clandestinely stoking Americansâ fatalism about one another.
As the bookâs subjects grapple with how to call out threats and injustices while calling in those who donât agree with them but just might one day, they point a way to healing, and changing, a fracturing country.
