{"product_id":"in-covids-wake-how-our-politics-failed-us-paperback","title":"In Covid's Wake: How Our Politics Failed Us - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eStephen Macedo\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eFrances Lee\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of \u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e's 10 Best Books of the Year\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFeatured on the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times' The Daily \u003c\/i\u003epodcast and CNN\u003ci\u003e's Fareed Zakaria GPS\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat our failures during the pandemic cost us, and why we must do better\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe Covid pandemic quickly led to the greatest mobilization of emergency powers in human history. By early April 2020, half the world's population--3.9 billion people--were living under quarantine. People were told not to leave their homes; businesses were shuttered, employees laid off, and schools closed for months or even years. The most devastating pandemic in a century and the policies adopted in response to it upended life as we knew it. In this eye-opening book, Stephen Macedo and Frances Lee examine our pandemic response and pose some provocative questions: Why did we ignore pre-Covid plans for managing a pandemic? Were the voices of reasonable dissent treated fairly? Did we adequately consider the costs and benefits of different policy options? And, aside from vaccines, did the policies adopted work as intended? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith \u003ci\u003eIn Covid's Wake\u003c\/i\u003e, Macedo and Lee offer the first comprehensive--and candid--political assessment of how our institutions fared during the pandemic. They describe how, influenced by Wuhan's lockdown, governments departed from their existing pandemic plans. Hard choices were obscured by slogans like \"follow the science.\" Benefits and harms were distributed unfairly. The policies adopted largely benefited the laptop class and left so-called essential workers unprotected; extended school closures hit the least-privileged families the hardest. Science became politicized and dissent was driven to the margins. In the next crisis, Macedo and Lee warn, we must not forget the deepest values of liberal democracy: tolerance and open-mindedness, respect for evidence and its limits, a willingness to entertain uncertainty, and a commitment to telling the whole truth.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eStephen Macedo\u003c\/b\u003e is the Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Politics and the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eJust Married: Same-Sex Couples, Monogamy, and the Future of Marriage \u003c\/i\u003e(Princeton); \u003ci\u003eDiversity and Distrust: Civic Education in a Multicultural Democracy;\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eLiberal Virtues: Citizenship, Virtue, and Community in Liberal Constitutionalism\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cb\u003eFrances Lee\u003c\/b\u003e is professor of politics and public affairs at Princeton University. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eInsecure Majorities: Congress and the Perpetual Campaign\u003c\/i\u003e;\u003ci\u003e Beyond Ideology: Politics, Principles, and Partisanship in the U.S. Senate;\u003c\/i\u003e and (with James M. Curry) \u003ci\u003eThe Limits of Party: Congress and Lawmaking in a Polarized Age.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 400\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.3 x 7.8 x 5.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 21, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53855246385485,"sku":"9780691267142","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0927\/3304\/7117\/files\/P4uAa0BJaD9780691267142.webp?v=1778093423","url":"https:\/\/belfastbooks.us\/products\/in-covids-wake-how-our-politics-failed-us-paperback","provider":"belfastbooks.us","version":"1.0","type":"link"}