
In a brilliant, engrossing narrative, Nancy MacLean shows how these ideas were forged in a last-gasp attempt to preserve the white elite's power in the wake of Brown v. This book names its true architect - Nobel Prize-winning political economist James McGill Buchanan - and dissects the operation he and his colleagues designed 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 democratic governance.

An explosive exposU of the man and the ideas behind the well-heeled right's relentless campaign to eliminate unions, suppress voting, privatise public education, and curb democratic majority rule.īehind today's headlines of billionaires taking over US government is a secretive political establishment with deep and troubling roots.
