The book for September is The Price of Democracy by Vanessa Williamson.
Vanessa was our guest on the May edition of the Democracy Forum. Listen to the conversation here. We can't wait to read the book. Thanks to the author, we have a few free copies: first come, first served. Email us at downeast@lwvme.org to request a copy.
From the publisher:
In The Price of Democracy, Vanessa S. Williamson challenges the myth that Americans are instinctively anti-tax, revealing that fights over taxes have always been proxies for deeper conflicts over who is included in “We the People.” Poorer people have repeatedly built movements that sought to tax all Americans to create a more equal and democratic nation. Wealthy people have responded by constraining the power to tax and stifling democracy through voting restrictions, gerrymandering, and violence. Yet as hard as anti-tax crusaders have fought to create an America that redistributes not from rich to poor, but from non-white people to rich white people, the battle rages on.
Join us even if you haven't read the book. It's sure to be a lively conversation.