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Nancy MacLean, "Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America" (Viking, 2017)
The far-right has been coming after democracy for decades and we may be just one election away from a total takeover. Join NBN host and rhetorical scholar Lee Pierce (she/they) for a robust discussion of Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America (Viking, 2017) with award-winning historian Nancy MacLean and attorney Mary Whiteside. Get ready for an explosive expose of the right’s relentless campaign to undermine civil rights and alter the Constitution forever. Democracy in Chains tracks the development of a secretive political establishment—the…
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