{"product_id":"the-persuaders-at-the-front-lines-of-the-fight-for-hearts-minds-and-democracy-paperback","title":"The Persuaders: At the Front Lines of the Fight for Hearts, Minds, and Democracy - 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\u003eAnand Giridharadas\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES \u003c\/i\u003eBESTSELLER - An insider account of activists, politicians, educators, and everyday citizens working to change minds, bridge divisions, and fight for democracy--from disinformation fighters to a leader of Black Lives Matter to Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and more--by the best-selling author of \u003ci\u003eWinners Take All\u003c\/i\u003e and award-winning former \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e columnist\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Anand Giridharadas shows the way we get real progressive change in America--by refusing to write others off, building more welcoming movements, and rededicating ourselves to the work of changing minds.\" --Robert B. Reich, best-selling author of \u003ci\u003eThe System\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe lifeblood of any free society is persuasion: changing other people's 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Persuaders, \u003c\/i\u003e 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 Americans' fatalism about one another. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs the book's subjects grapple with how to call out threats and injustices while calling in those who don't agree with them but just might one day, they point a way to healing, and changing, a fracturing country.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eANAND GIRIDHARADAS is the author of the international best-seller \u003ci\u003eWinners Take All, The True American, \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e India Calling.\u003c\/i\u003e A former foreign correspondent and columnist for \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e for more than a decade, he has also written for \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker, The Atlantic, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eTime, \u003c\/i\u003e and is the publisher of the newsletter\u003ci\u003e The.Ink. \u003c\/i\u003eHe is an on-air political analyst for MSNBC. He has received the Radcliffe Fellowship, the Porchlight Business Book of the Year Award, Harvard University's Outstanding Lifetime Achievement Award for Humanism in Culture, and the New York Public Library's Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 352\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.87 x 7.87 x 5.12 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 17, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53756877799757,"sku":"9780593312643","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0927\/3304\/7117\/files\/bS19kK__e39780593312643.webp?v=1776754692","url":"https:\/\/belfastbooks.us\/products\/the-persuaders-at-the-front-lines-of-the-fight-for-hearts-minds-and-democracy-paperback","provider":"belfastbooks.us","version":"1.0","type":"link"}