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THE PERSUADERS - ANAND GIRIDHARADAS KARTONIERT ...

CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE GUARDIAN  NEW STATESMAN AND THE IRISH TIMES 'Illuminating
and entertaining . . . while the world seems to counsel despair  The Persuaders is animated by
a sense of possibility' The New York Times A riveting insider account of how activists 
politicians  educators and citizens are working to change minds  bridge divisions and save
democracy The lifeblood of any free society is persuasion: changing other people's minds to
enable real change. But America is suffering a crisis of faith in persuasion that is putting
its democracy and the planet itself at risk. People increasingly write each other off instead
of seeking to win each other over. Debates are framed in moralistic terms  with enemies
battling the righteous. Movements for justice build barriers to entry  instead of on-ramps.
Political parties focus on mobilizing the faithful rather than wooing the sceptical. And
leaders who seek to forge coalition are labelled sell-outs. In The Persuaders best-selling
author Anand Giridharadas takes us inside these movements and battles  seeking out the
dissenters who continue to champion persuasion in an age of polarization. We meet a co-founder
of Black Lives Matter  a leader of the feminist resistance to Trumpism  white parents at a
seminar on raising adopted children of colour  Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez  a
team of door knockers with an uncanny formula for changing minds on immigration  and an ex-cult
member turned QAnon deprogrammer. As they grapple with how to call out threats and injustices
while calling in those who don't agree with them but just might one day  they point a way to
healing  and changing  a broken society.

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