Author Ira Shapiro has captured sixty years of Senate history in his trilogy of books documenting the dangerous decent of what should be our more deliberative, collegial government body. Mr. Shapiro’s most recent installment is The Betrayal: How Mitch McConnell and the Senate Republicans Abandoned America. It serves as a call to action. Yes, The Senate’s intransigent refusal to pass legislation that helps Americans is appalling. But what can we, the people, do about? Ira Shapiro has thoughts and ideas.

Plus, Fritz and Weezy are comparing documentaries to their docudrama counterparts and recommending The Staircase on HBO and Watergate: Blueprint for a Scandal on CNN.

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Ira Shapiro

The Betrayal: How Mitch McConnell and the Senate Republicans Abandoned America by Ira Shapiro

The Last Great Senate: Courage and Statesmanship in Times of Crisis

Broken: Can the Senate Save Itself and the Country? 

Watergate: Blueprint For a Scandal-CNN

Gaslit - Starz

The Staircase - HBO

The Staircase - Netflix

Grey Gardens Documentary

Grey Gardens Docudrama

An American Family

Cinema Verite  - HBO

Cinema Verite - Amazon

Gift of Democracy. com