Video for this Open Democracy Book Club Event:   https://youtu.be/_kqq98chc_g

Please join us on January 13, 2022 for our next Open Democracy Book Club.  The book that has been chosen is "Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America" by Nancy MacLean.  We will be joined by Nancy for the beginning portion of the program.

"Democracy in Chains" is 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.

Nancy MacLean is the William H. Chafe Professor of History and Public Policy at Duke University, and the award-winning author of several books. Her scholarship has received more than a dozen major prizes and awards, and has been supported by fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Humanities Center, the Russell Sage Foundation, and the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowships Foundation.

A New York Times bestseller, Democracy in Chains was a finalist for the National Book Award, and the winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Award in Current Affairs, the Lannan Foundation Cultural Freedom Award, and the Lillian Smith Book Award. The Nation magazine named it the “Most Valuable Book” of the year

 Booklist called it “perhaps the best explanation to date of the roots of the political divide that threatens to irrevocably alter American government.” The Guardian said: “It’s the missing chapter: a key to understanding the politics of the past half century.”

“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

Purchasing information:

ISBN: 9781101980972
Publisher: Penguin
Publication Date: June 5, 2018
Pages: 368
Language: English

Available at your local bookstore: Gibson's Bookstore - Toadstool Bookshops - Water Street Bookstore in print or audio book.