{"product_id":"broken-guardrails-john-mcninch-9798180888006","title":"Broken Guardrails: How America Discovered Its Democracy Was Never As Strong As It Thought","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe system did not break. That is the first thing to understand, and the hardest.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor sixty years, presidents of both parties abused the Justice Department. Members of Congress traded stocks on information the public never had. The presidency was monetized. The courts were captured. The civil service was politicized. And everyone involved maintained the performance of legitimacy - the shared agreement to keep up appearances - because the concealment was the guardrail.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen the concealment ended.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBroken Guardrails is not a partisan book. It does not argue that one party is responsible for what has happened to American democracy. It argues something harder to accept: that both parties built the conditions that made this moment possible, decision by decision, administration by administration, across six decades of people telling themselves their cause was worth the precedent they were setting.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is the book that assembles the picture no single institution had reason to assemble - and proposes the structural reforms that could finally fix it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA republic, if you can keep it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e John McNinch\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798180888006\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/16\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 262\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.78lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.55d","brand":"John McNinch","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49173826076927,"sku":"9798180888006","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_f6eb1a6b-2918-4de2-aeec-bb33ec0d9bb6.jpg?v=1788956474","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/broken-guardrails-john-mcninch-9798180888006","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}