The Fix by Barbara McQuade

The Fix: Saving America from the Corruption of a Mob-Style Government by Barbara McQuade — a piercing, urgent exposé from the former U.S. Attorney and New York Times bestselling author of Attack from Within.

Drawing on decades of experience as a federal prosecutor, Barbara McQuade shows how corruption, cruelty, and chaos are being used as tools of control. As U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan, she prosecuted high-profile corruption cases, including the racketeering conviction of former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick. In The Fix, she applies that expertise to the broader threat facing American democracy.

Weaving together courtroom stories, historical lessons, and clear-eyed legal analysis, McQuade argues that each act of corruption and each erosion of accountability is a step toward authoritarianism. She examines the tactics of information warfare, retribution, and the dismantling of institutional checks that undermine the rule of law.

Yet this is not only a diagnosis. In the final chapters, McQuade offers practical strategies that ordinary Americans can use — from organizing teach-ins and protests to running for local office — to reclaim democratic norms and ensure that elected officials serve the public interest rather than private power.

Accessible, rigorously informed, and grounded in constitutional principle, The Fix is both a warning and a call to action for anyone concerned about the future of American democracy.