Daniel Lazare is the author of “The Frozen Republic: How the Constitution Is Paralyzing Democracy” (Harcourt Brace, 1996) and other books about American politics.  He has written for a wide variety of publications from The Nationto Le Monde Diplomatique and blogs about the..…

As the first African American with a good chance at winning a majority of voters in a country founded on slavery and whose constitution initially counted Blacks as three-fifths of a person, he has lifted the hopes of millions of people. ..…

His third book, The Radical and Republican, used the relationship between Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass to explore the evolution of Republican attitudes toward emancipation during Civil War.. ..…

.), Leftovers: Tales of the Two Latin American Lefts (New York: Routledge, 2008). . “Bolivia’s new constitution: A passport to utopia,” Economist, January 22, 2009; Michael Reid, “Latin drift: Sorting Latin America’s pragmatists from its populists,” Economist, November 19, 2008;..…