Kill Switch: The Rise of the Modern Senate and the Crippling of American Democracy, a new book by Adam Jentleson, makes for a powerful brief on their behalf… a compelling read." ― Kathy Kiely, Washington Post "eading Democrats, including Reid and former president Barack Obama, are pressing for a sweeping rehab of the “home” Biden has found so comfortable. Jentleson understands the inner workings of the institution, down to the most granular details, showing precisely how arcane procedural rules can be leveraged to dramatic effect." ― Jennifer Szalai, New York Times intimacy with the Senate turns out to be his book’s greatest strength.
In Kill Switch, Jentleson explains how ‘the world’s greatest deliberative body’ has come to carry out its work without much greatness or even deliberation, serving instead as a place where ambitious legislation goes to die. Jentleson is knowledgeable and adept, offering an account of increasingly flagrant obstruction that culminates in the age of McConnell." ― Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker Every senator should be forced to read it and then reread it." ― Michael Tomasky, New York Review of Books Jentleson’s explanation of the filibuster’s ignominious roots, and of the mendacious arguments made today by its defenders, is careful and thorough and exacting. "Adam Jentleson’s Kill Switch is the most exquisitely timed book I’ve encountered in years. “A startling read that will provoke tough questions about governance, this is highly recommended to all interested in government reform.” ― Library Journal, Starred Review
Every member of the US Senate should read it, and so should the rest of us." ― Ezra Klein, New York Times bestselling author of Why We’re Polarized Combining prodigious research with the experience of serving at the right hand of Harry Reid, this is a necessary book for understanding why the Senate has become the key impediment to governance in America. "In Kill Switch, Adam Jentleson has created both an essential portrait of a Senate―and a political system―in crisis, as well as a crystal-clear analysis of how to save it.
Kill Switch : The rise of the modern senate
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