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. 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. But billionaires did not launch this movement a white intellectual in the embattled Jim Crow South did. The capitalist radical right has been working not simply to change who rules, but to fundamentally alter the rules of democratic governance. An explosive exposé of the right's relentless campaign to eliminate unions, suppress voting, privatize public education, and change the Constitution.īehind today's headlines of billionaires taking over our government is a secretive political establishment with long, deep, and troubling roots.
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