{"product_id":"9781324110880","title":"The Presidents and the People : Five Leaders Who Threatened Democracy and the Citizens Who Fought to Defend It","description":"\u003cp\u003eImagine an American president who imprisoned critics, spread a culture of white supremacy and tried to upend the law so that he could commit crimes with impunity. In this propulsive and eminently readable history, Corey Brettschneider provides a thoroughly researched account of assaults on democracy by not one such president but five: John Adams, James Buchanan, Andrew Johnson, Woodrow Wilson and Richard Nixon.   Brettschneider shows that these presidents didn't have the last word; citizen movements brought the United States back from the precipice by appealing to a democratic understanding of the Constitution and pressuring subsequent reform-minded presidents to realise the promise of \"We the People\". This is a book about citizens-Frederick Douglass, Ida B. Wells, Daniel Ellsberg and more-who fought back against presidential abuses of power and give hope about the possibilities of restoring democracy.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rye Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55732021035384,"sku":"9781324110880","price":13.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0064\/1368\/0730\/files\/9781324110880.jpg?v=1794266565","url":"https:\/\/ryebooks.co.uk\/products\/9781324110880","provider":"Rye Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}