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How Civil Wars Start: And How to Stop Them
Author: Barbara F Walter
Publisher: Penguin
Price: Rs 799
Pages: 293
In the year since the rampage at the Capitol, chatter about a 21st-century American civil war has seeped from the fringes into the mainstream. During the Trump presidency, there were of course any number of books about political fracture; still, they mostly discussed widening but (usually) peaceable differences.
By contrast, predictions of an imminent conflagration tended to come from those quarters that also celebrated it, on MAGA [Make America Great Again] Twitter and its companion talk shows. The logic was hard to follow, but
