In Braziles inimitable no-holds-barred fashion she further asserts that three titanic egos Barack, Hillary, and Debbie stripped the party to a shell for their own purposes.

Since the election of Donald Trump , most Americans on both sides of the political aisle feel American democracy is under siege. The infighting going on in both the Democratic and Republican camps has cast a pall on the countrys future. And neither party, at present, can tamp down the support nor enthusiasm some have for establishment outsiders like Vermont US Senator Bernie Sanders and President Donald J. Trumpeven with his declining approval rating .

In this environment of our falling Republic, Donna Brazile has written a book titled Hacks: The Inside Story of the Break-ins and Breakdowns That Put Donald Trump in the White House .

Brazile is the former chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee (DNC), the first African-American to manage a presidential campaign, and a longtime Democratic strategist with the reputation inside the Beltway as a one-stop shop for fixing sticky problems.

Amazon depicts Hacks as equal parts campaign thriller, memoir, and roadmap for the future. But truth be told, Hacks has detonated a political bombshell with mixed reviews.

This book is a triumph, Walter Isaacson wrote , whos the biographer of New York Times best sellers Steve Jobs, Einstein, and now Leonardo da Vinci.

However, the responses to Braziles book resonates more with what Jonathan Capehart, the first openly black gay male and member of the Post editorial board, tweeted: Gurrrll, what happened? People are mad. By people I mean Democrats .

Hacks has two narrative strands: one story of the Russians relentless hacking into DNC computers. And, the other story about the colossal missteps of the Clinton campaign and her tight-fisted one-sided financial control of the party a year before her nomination revealing sadly how the process was rigged against Sanders.

In Braziles inimitable no-holds-barred fashion she further asserts that three titanic egos Barack, Hillary, and Debbie stripped the party to a shell for their own purposes.

Braziles assertions about the Russian hacking are not being disputed. However, its the rest of the story has those inside the DNC scratching their heads that nearly 100 members of Clintons campaign team wrote a letter saying, We do not recognize the campaign she portrays in the book.

Braziles inflammatory cancer and slave references not only roiled the DNC but stirred up both Bernie supporters and African American voters nervously concerned, respectfully.

I had promised Bernie when I took the helm of the Democratic National Committee after the convention that I would get to the bottom of whether Hillary Clintons team had rigged the nomination process, Brazile wrote . Months later Brazile wrote Bernie back. Hello, senator. Ive completed my review of the DNC and I did find the cancer. But I will not kill the patient.

With Senator Elizabeth Warren concurring that the DNC was indeed rigged in Clintons favor the statement cast a pall about our electoral process honoring fair play.

And, with race being the third rail in this country, Braziles statement I am not Patsy the slave referring to Oscar-winning actress Lupita Nyongos character in the 2013 film Twelve Years a Slave,doesnt help the DNC, already perceived as racist and cheaters. and, now theyll certainly have an uphill battle trying to win over African American millennials and Bernie supporters.

I get Brazile's anger. She felt dissed by the DNC, even though she worked on every presidential campaign from 1976 through 2000. Braziles anger about being tethered to the tight-fisted, one-sided financial control of the party to promote Clintons campaign and not promote those on the down-ballot her frustration is understood. However, she lodges her complaints in a manner that appears more like out of desperation than determination.

Brazile is unarguably one of the most known and important and powerful women in politics of the last three decades. Ive enjoyed following her political career. Shes a political icon , like Maxine Waters, and sisters like myself love and revere her and want her to stick around.

And, the black community thanks her for her public service, too.

On October 4, Harvard awarded Brazile with the W.E.B. Dubois Meda l. Its given to outstanding individuals who have made significant contributions to African and African American history and culture, and more broadly individuals who advocate for intercultural understanding and human rights in an increasingly global and interconnected world.

Hacks hit bookshelves on November 7 and bookstores across the country have been trying to keep up with its demands. On Tuesday, November 14, Brazile came to the Harvard Coop in Cambridge to talk about her book. She spoke to a not-so-rapt audience of Sanders supporters and Clinton die-hard fans. Braziles responses during the Q&A were lackluster, but of a much better tone than you hear in the book.

Ive read Braziles book, and everyone who has read it has challenged her assertions in the book, sadly even sister-friends in her cornerWhoopi, Sunny, and Oprahs Gale, to name a few.

I posit that Brazile may very well be speaking truth to power but the tone of the book and the interpretations of events read more like a revenge narrative than objectively reporting the facts in trying to salvage whats left of this American democracy.