{"product_id":"a-brief-history-of-roberts-rules-power-democracy-and-the-making-of-american-parliamentary-procedure-9798254592389","title":"A Brief History of Robert's Rules: Power, Democracy and the Making of American Parliamentary Procedure","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Rylan Stone\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Political Ideologies - Democracy\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book that taught America how to govern itself. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 1863, a United States Army engineer named Henry Martyn Robert attended a church meeting in New Bedford, Massachusetts, failed to chair it, and walked home with a problem he could not leave alone. Thirteen years later, he published a 176-page pocket manual that would sell fifteen million copies and govern the deliberations of everyone from union halls and women's clubs to the United States Senate. This is the story of that book, and of the oldest unsolved problem in democratic life. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhat you will find in these pages: \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe untold story of how women's clubs adopted Robert's Rules decades before Congress did, turning a procedural manual into an instrument of civic power\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow the same rules designed to protect minority voices became the weapons used to block civil rights legislation for generations\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe civil rights organizers, from Septima Clark to Fannie Lou Hamer, who reclaimed parliamentary procedure as a tool of liberation\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe intellectual rivals who challenged Robert's framework and forced his heirs to defend the principles underneath the rules\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhy the digital age has made procedural order more necessary and more absent than at any point since 1863\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Brief History of Robert's Rules of Order\u003c\/b\u003e is popular narrative history at its most engaged: rigorously researched, character-driven, and built around the conviction that the grammar of democratic deliberation is one of the most consequential and least examined forces in American civic life.\u003cbr\u003eWritten for history enthusiasts, civics educators, political science students, and anyone who has ever sat through a meeting that should have been better, this book answers a question most people have never thought to ask: where did the rules come from, who used them, who abused them, and why do they still matter?\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eIf you have ever wondered why the floor belongs to whoever knows the rules, this book will tell you how that came to be.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47775088771223,"sku":"9798254592389","price":1110.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798254592389.webp?v=1777988424","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/a-brief-history-of-roberts-rules-power-democracy-and-the-making-of-american-parliamentary-procedure-9798254592389","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}