Stevens shows how Trump is in fact the natural outcome of five decades of hypocrisy and self-delusion, dating all the way back to the civil rights legislation of the early 1960s. Add to Wish List. Their utopian vision is frightening in its mass disenfranchisement and lack of basic compassion and in how successful they have been in promoting policies and debate in favor of it. Anne Applebaum. Start a free 30-day trial today and get your first audiobook free. Anne Applebaum, Narrated by: By confirming your purchase, you agree to Audible's, The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America. This sixty-year campaign to make libertarianism mainstream and eventually take the government itself is at the heart of Democracy in Chains. (Booklist). How an economist trying to justify school segregation in the 1950s became the brains behind today's Koch Brothers juggernaut to transform America into a repressive oligarchy is a story every citizen needs to know. . 10:53. Based on 10 years of unique research, Democracy in Chains tells a chilling story of right-wing academics and big money run amok. Let's hope this book and books like it ensure that we move in the right direction. Based on ten years of unique research, Democracy in Chains tells a chilling story of right-wing academics and big money run amok. Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne. In this brilliant book, Isabel Wilkerson gives us a masterful portrait of an unseen phenomenon in America as she explores, through an immersive, deeply researched narrative and stories about real people, how America today and throughout its history has been shaped by a hidden caste system, a rigid hierarchy of human rankings. If you're worried about what all this means for America's future, you should be.” (NPR). Isabel Wilkerson. 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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. The real story of populism is an account of enlightenment and liberation; it is the story of American democracy itself, of its ever-widening promise of a decent life for all. But this is a mistake. This book reveals a dangerous line of thought and policy that will harm our democracy if we don’t heed this information. This revelatory work of scholarship is also a call to arms to protect the achievements of twentieth-century American … Their actions make it clear that they do not care about the liberty of the many but only the liberty to use their outsized power through the money and property they have obtained to rule over the rest of us. Author: Nancy MacLean. Non-Fiction. 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