The Unraveling: Reflections on Politics without Ethics and Democracy in Crisis
Autor Bob Bauer Cuvânt înainte de Jon Meacham, Jack Goldsmithen Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 apr 2026
Essential reading for anyone interested in modern American politics, get the book that former President Barack Obama on X calls "a deeply thoughtful book" and says, "couldn't be a more timely read."
Part memoir, part rumination on the declining moral compass of the American political class, The Unraveling is the first book to place restoring political ethics at the center of the renewal of American democracy. Politics is a brutal game, but Bauer asks where does the line fall between the "hardball" of politics and attacks on the very foundation of democracy? Looking back on 46 years in the political arena, Bauer tries to better grasp what has gone wrong and to understand what shaped his own decisions and actions. He offers anecdotes, perspectives, and insights that are vitally relevant in our world today, including efforts in 2020 (and 2024) to defend our democratic system of elections from attack and distrust, and the struggles with social media, such as Meta, to combat disinformation in a post-truth politics. The expanded paperback edition includes a new concluding chapter highlighting the ethical failures of public institutions under the the second Trump administration-law firms, universities, and the media, as well as the Trump administration itself-and the imperative to do better in order to preserve the consent of the governed in American democracy.
He writes about the various personal experiences along the way-the highs, the lows, and the absurd. Bauer presents a smart and serious look at our political culture and the role that he has played in shaping it. The Unraveling will be essential reading for anyone interested in American politics of the last 50 years--and the next.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9798216367918
Pagini: 304
Ilustrații: 10 BW Photos
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:Revizuită
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Locul publicării:New York, United States
Pagini: 304
Ilustrații: 10 BW Photos
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:Revizuită
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Locul publicării:New York, United States
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Cuprins
Foreword, by John Meacham
Foreword to the Paperback Edition, by Jack Goldsmith
Preface
Chapter 1: First Words about a Life in Politics
Chapter 2: Getting into the Business
Chapter 3: Politics and the Warrior Mentality
Chapter 4: The Weapon of Political Power
Chapter 5: Lying, Manipulation, and Debates
Chapter 6: Money in Politics
Chapter 7: The Press
Chapter 8: Impeachment
Chapter 9: Representing Presidents
Chapter 10: Joe Biden's 2020 Campaign
Chapter 11: On the Nature of Political Ethics
Chapter 12: Ethical Action in Politics
Last Words
Afterword to the Paperback Edition
Notes
Index
About the Author
Foreword to the Paperback Edition, by Jack Goldsmith
Preface
Chapter 1: First Words about a Life in Politics
Chapter 2: Getting into the Business
Chapter 3: Politics and the Warrior Mentality
Chapter 4: The Weapon of Political Power
Chapter 5: Lying, Manipulation, and Debates
Chapter 6: Money in Politics
Chapter 7: The Press
Chapter 8: Impeachment
Chapter 9: Representing Presidents
Chapter 10: Joe Biden's 2020 Campaign
Chapter 11: On the Nature of Political Ethics
Chapter 12: Ethical Action in Politics
Last Words
Afterword to the Paperback Edition
Notes
Index
About the Author
Recenzii
The Unraveling by Bob Bauer is a deeply thoughtful book that includes reflections on his decades-long career in politics and gives insight into the ways we can work to strengthen our democracy. It couldn't be a more timely read.
Bob Bauer brings a unique combination of practical, on-the-ground expertise and deep intellectual rigor to the complex intersection of politics and ethics-a topic never more important, but seemingly never more hopeless, than today. In this sober, and sobering, update to The Unraveling, Bauer charts the dangerous new reality, in Donald Trump's second term, of 'a politics devoid of ethical as well as legal constraints.' He poses the unsettling question of whether private entities-from law firms to media organizations to educational institutions-will summon the fortitude to stand up to relentless, and lawless, bullying. Bauer's real-time assessment, including the performance of my own former employer, The Washington Post, is far from comforting-and the stakes are nothing less than 'the vibrancy and durability of American democracy.'
A man of the arena, Bob Bauer is remarkably candid about his own role in defining and in deploying the law of politics-or, sometimes, the politics of the law-in recent decades. In these pages he takes honest account of the conflicts and compromises of an inherently complex sphere of life.
Bob is one of the few people who has had a front seat to history through two Presidents and a first hand knowledge of the weight and responsibilities that sit on their shoulders. Through engaging storytelling and candor about his own experiences, Bob reminds us of the responsibility every public servant has to weigh ethics and morality in decision making not just in the age of Trump but well beyond.
Too many foxholes over too many years with Bob Bauer. His good advice is only rivaled by his good collegiality. Eager to dive into the Unraveling.
With wit, insight, self-awareness, and humility, Bob Bauer reflects on his life as a leading political lawyer, making an urgent plea for a renewed commitment to political ethics. A must-read warning about how our existential politics has led to norm collapse, and how to bring us back from the brink.
There may be no lawyer in America today who has been more deeply involved than Bob Bauer in the major political controversies over many years. In this important memoir, Bauer takes us behind the scenes and into the rooms where some of the most consequential political battles played out. For that reason alone, his book makes for riveting reading. But more than that, Bauer takes a hard look at his own role in those events, asking whether he helped to strengthen democratic norms or whether he could have done more or better. Bauer's introspective analysis is a call to each of us to ask the same hard question about the way we involve ourselves in today's politics. Do we have the moral courage to become the type of person our politics needs at this moment of toxic polarization that threatens our democracy?
In this new edition of The Unraveling, Bob Bauer extends his examination of ethics in American politics with a timely and sobering afterword. In the year since the book's first publication, his clarion call for a reinvigoration of democratic ethics has become more urgent, as the erosion of norms has extended to the press, law firms, and universities, testing the independence of core institutions. Bauer's analysis is clear-eyed, deeply informed, and grounded in long experience. The Unraveling remains one of the most thoughtful accounts we have of how ethical failure and political polarization intersect-and what it might take to restore a sense of public responsibility.
In The Unraveling, Bob Bauer drew from his unparalleled experience as a lawyer engaged in the most consequential political battles of our age to warn us all of the risks to our democracy and to the rule of law when politics becomes completely untethered from ethics and mutual respect for our fellow citizens. Now, with a president abusing his power to bend law firms, universities, and other pillars of civil society to his will, it is clear that Bob's warnings were prophetic. This updated edition, particularly Bob's trenchant analysis of the intensifying threats posed by an executive branch seeking to crush all opposition, could not be more timely, and his insights could not be more important to the vital struggle to preserve our constitutional democracy and the rule of law itself.
Bob Bauer brings a unique combination of practical, on-the-ground expertise and deep intellectual rigor to the complex intersection of politics and ethics-a topic never more important, but seemingly never more hopeless, than today. In this sober, and sobering, update to The Unraveling, Bauer charts the dangerous new reality, in Donald Trump's second term, of 'a politics devoid of ethical as well as legal constraints.' He poses the unsettling question of whether private entities-from law firms to media organizations to educational institutions-will summon the fortitude to stand up to relentless, and lawless, bullying. Bauer's real-time assessment, including the performance of my own former employer, The Washington Post, is far from comforting-and the stakes are nothing less than 'the vibrancy and durability of American democracy.'
A man of the arena, Bob Bauer is remarkably candid about his own role in defining and in deploying the law of politics-or, sometimes, the politics of the law-in recent decades. In these pages he takes honest account of the conflicts and compromises of an inherently complex sphere of life.
Bob is one of the few people who has had a front seat to history through two Presidents and a first hand knowledge of the weight and responsibilities that sit on their shoulders. Through engaging storytelling and candor about his own experiences, Bob reminds us of the responsibility every public servant has to weigh ethics and morality in decision making not just in the age of Trump but well beyond.
Too many foxholes over too many years with Bob Bauer. His good advice is only rivaled by his good collegiality. Eager to dive into the Unraveling.
With wit, insight, self-awareness, and humility, Bob Bauer reflects on his life as a leading political lawyer, making an urgent plea for a renewed commitment to political ethics. A must-read warning about how our existential politics has led to norm collapse, and how to bring us back from the brink.
There may be no lawyer in America today who has been more deeply involved than Bob Bauer in the major political controversies over many years. In this important memoir, Bauer takes us behind the scenes and into the rooms where some of the most consequential political battles played out. For that reason alone, his book makes for riveting reading. But more than that, Bauer takes a hard look at his own role in those events, asking whether he helped to strengthen democratic norms or whether he could have done more or better. Bauer's introspective analysis is a call to each of us to ask the same hard question about the way we involve ourselves in today's politics. Do we have the moral courage to become the type of person our politics needs at this moment of toxic polarization that threatens our democracy?
In this new edition of The Unraveling, Bob Bauer extends his examination of ethics in American politics with a timely and sobering afterword. In the year since the book's first publication, his clarion call for a reinvigoration of democratic ethics has become more urgent, as the erosion of norms has extended to the press, law firms, and universities, testing the independence of core institutions. Bauer's analysis is clear-eyed, deeply informed, and grounded in long experience. The Unraveling remains one of the most thoughtful accounts we have of how ethical failure and political polarization intersect-and what it might take to restore a sense of public responsibility.
In The Unraveling, Bob Bauer drew from his unparalleled experience as a lawyer engaged in the most consequential political battles of our age to warn us all of the risks to our democracy and to the rule of law when politics becomes completely untethered from ethics and mutual respect for our fellow citizens. Now, with a president abusing his power to bend law firms, universities, and other pillars of civil society to his will, it is clear that Bob's warnings were prophetic. This updated edition, particularly Bob's trenchant analysis of the intensifying threats posed by an executive branch seeking to crush all opposition, could not be more timely, and his insights could not be more important to the vital struggle to preserve our constitutional democracy and the rule of law itself.