Pandemic Politics

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This audiobook narrated by Katherine Fenton explores how the politicization of the pandemic endangers our lives¿and our democracy COVID19 has killed more people than any war or public health crisis in American history, but the scale and grim human toll of the pandemic were not inevitable. Pandemic Politics examines how Donald Trump politicized COVID19, shedding new light on how his administration tied the pandemic to the president's political fate in an election year and chose partisanship over public health, with disastrous consequences for all of us. Health is not an inherently polarizing issue, but the Trump administration's partisan response to COVID-19 led ordinary citizens to prioritize what was good for their "team" rather than what was good for their country. Democrats, in turn, viewed the crisis as evidence of Trump's indifference to public well-being. At a time when solidarity and bipartisan unity were sorely needed, Americans came to see the pandemic in partisan terms, adopting behaviors and attitudes that continue to divide us today. This book draws on a wealth of new data on public opinion to show how pandemic politics has touched all aspects of our lives¿from the economy to race and immigration¿and puts America's COVID-19 response in global perspective. An indepth account of a uniquely American tragedy, Pandemic Politics reveals how the politicization of the COVID19 pandemic has profound and troubling implications for public health and the future of democracy itself.

Autorenportrait

Shana Kushner Gadarian is the Merle Goldberg Fabian Professor of Excellence in Citizenship and Critical Thinking at Syracuse University and the coauthor of Anxious Politics. Sara Wallace Goodman is professor of political science at the University of California, Irvine, and the author of Citizenship in Hard Times. Thomas B. Pepinsky is the Walter F. LaFeber Professor of Government and Public Policy at Cornell University and the coauthor of Piety and Public Opinion. Katherine Fenton is an award-winning voice actor and the narrator of many audiobooks, including Ira Levin's Rosemary's Baby, Elizabeth Gilbert's The Last American Man, and The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein.

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