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Why can't our government solve solvable problems? Just 20 answers that question. America has no shortage of politics. It has a shortage of governing. Governing means turning shared problems into durable, representative public policy. The Constitution assigns that job to Congress. But for decades, while our attention has been consumed by the presidency, the courts, political parties, and never-ending campaigns, Congress stopped working as the Constitution intended. We can change that. We have far more power than we realize.

It all started with some businessmen bankrolling Richard Nixon to become a "salesman against socialization". But in this precursor to current campaign finance scandals, Nixon had some explaining to do to keep his place on Eisenhower’s Republican ticket, so he took to the airwaves. In making his speech, Nixon left behind lines about a "Republican cloth coat" and a black-and-white cocker spaniel named Checkers. The speech saved and bolstered Nixon’s political career and set the tone for the 1952 campaign. Just Plain Dick is political history and more.

Americans of all political stripes are heading into the 2008 election with the sense that something has gone terribly wrong with American politics. But what exactly? The only thing everyone seems to agree on, in fact, is that the American people are entirely blameless. InJust How Stupid Are We?, best-selling historian and renowned myth-buster Rick Shenkman takes aim at our great national piety: the wisdom of the American people.