Description: Further DetailsTitle: Democracy in ChainsCondition: NewSubtitle: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for AmericaISBN-10: 1101980974EAN: 9781101980972ISBN: 9781101980972Publisher: Penguin USAFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 06/05/2018Description: Winner of the Lillian Smith Book AwardWinner of the Los Angeles Times Book PrizeFinalist for the National Book AwardThe Nation's "Most Valuable Book"“[A] vibrant intellectual history of the radical right.”—The Atlantic “This sixty-year campaign to make libertarianism mainstream and eventually take the government itself is at the heart of Democracy in Chains. . . . If you're worried about what all this means for America's future, you should be.”—NPR An explosive exposé of the right’s relentless campaign to eliminate unions, suppress voting, privatize public education, stop action on climate change, and alter the Constitution.Behind today’s headlines of billionaires taking over our government is a secretive political establishment with long, deep, and troubling roots. The capitalist radical right has been working not simply to change who rules, but to fundamentally alter the rules of democratic governance. But billionaires did not launch this movement; a white intellectual in the embattled Jim Crow South did. Democracy in Chains names its true architect—the Nobel Prize-winning political economist James McGill Buchanan—and dissects the operation he and his colleagues designed over six decades to alter every branch of government to disempower the majority. In a brilliant and engrossing narrative, Nancy MacLean shows how Buchanan forged his ideas about government in a last gasp attempt to preserve the white elite’s power in the wake of Brown v. Board of Education. In response to the widening of American democracy, he developed a brilliant, if diabolical, plan to undermine the ability of the majority to use its numbers to level the playing field between the rich and powerful and the rest of us. Corporate donors and their right-wing foundations were only too eager to support Buchanan’s work in teaching others how to divide America into “makers” and “takers.” And when a multibillionaire on a messianic mission to rewrite the social contract of the modern world, Charles Koch, discovered Buchanan, he created a vast, relentless, and multi-armed machine to carry out Buchanan’s strategy. Without Buchanan's ideas and Koch's money, the libertarian right would not have succeeded in its stealth takeover of the Republican Party as a delivery mechanism. Now, with Mike Pence as Vice President, the cause has a longtime loyalist in the White House, not to mention a phalanx of Republicans in the House, the Senate, a majority of state governments, and the courts, all carrying out the plan. That plan includes harsher laws to undermine unions, privatizing everything from schools to health care and Social Security, and keeping as many of us as possible from voting. Based on ten years of unique research, Democracy in Chains tells a chilling story of right-wing academics and big money run amok. This revelatory work of scholarship is also a call to arms to protect the achievements of twentieth-century American self-government.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 213mmItem Length: 139mmItem Width: 20mmItem Weight: 301gAuthor: Nancy MacLeanGenre: Law & PoliticsTopic: HistoryRelease Year: 2018 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: Democracy in Chains
Title: Democracy in Chains
Subtitle: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America
ISBN-10: 1101980974
EAN: 9781101980972
ISBN: 9781101980972
Release Date: 06/05/2018
Release Year: 2018
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Book Title: Democracy in Chains : the Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America
Number of Pages: 384 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Item Height: 0.8 in
Topic: Political Ideologies / Radicalism, Political Ideologies / Libertarianism, Economics / General, American Government / General, Political Ideologies / Democracy, United States / General, Political Ideologies / Conservatism & Liberalism
Publication Year: 2018
Genre: Political Science, Business & Economics, History
Item Weight: 11 Oz
Author: Nancy Maclean
Item Length: 8.4 in
Item Width: 5.5 in
Format: Trade Paperback
