Bibliograph

Democracy in chains, the deep history of the radical right's stealth plan for America, Nancy MacLean

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Democracy in chains, the deep history of the radical right's stealth plan for America, Nancy MacLean

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-321) and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Democracy in chains

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

987376346

Responsibility statement

Nancy MacLean

Sub title

the deep history of the radical right's stealth plan for America

Summary

Behind today<U+2019>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<U+2014>the Nobel Prize-winning political economist James McGill Buchanan<U+2014>and dissects the operation he and his colleagues designed over six decades to alter every branch of government to disempower the majority

Table Of Contents

Introduction: A quiet deal in Dixie -- Prologue: the Marx of the master class -- There was no stopping us -- Part I: the ideas take shape -- A country boy goes to the Windy City -- the real purpose of the program -- Letting the chips fall where they may -- To protect capitalism from government -- A counterrevolution takes time -- A world gone mad -- Part II: Ideas in action -- Large things can start from small beginnings -- Never compromise -- A constitution with locks and bolts -- Democracy defeats the doctrine -- The kind of force that propelled Columbus -- Part III: The fallout -- Conclusion: Get ready

Target audience

adult

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