The Outrageous Barriers To Democracy In America : Or, Why A Progressive Presidency Is Impossible

Or Why A Progressive Presidency Is Impossible. Looking closely at congress, elections, and money in politics, and sparing neither side of the political spectrum, MacArthur delivers a devastating expos of the entrenched interests and elites that make change in America so impossible.

Surveying local activists fighting again moneyed interests, he finds much the same as whats going on in Washington.

First released in 2008, this was the first book to criticise Obama from the Left.

It is presented here in a new package its also fully revised and contains a new introduction discussing Obamas first term.