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"Essential reading" —Booklist (starred) "Kevin O'Leary tells this complex and alarming story brilliantly." —Robert Kuttner "O'Leary could not be more timely..." —Norman Ornstein "This beautifully written book is a must-read..." —Erwin Chemerinsky An eye-opening cultural history of the political revolution that has destroyed the Republican Party and unleashed an illiberal crusade against the ideals of the Founding Fathers. The story of America is the struggle between our liberal ideal and illiberal resistance. Donald Trump catalyzed a reactionary revolution by tapping into the dark, shadowy side of American democracy that embraces exclusion and inequality. Throughout American history these alarming impulses have come to the forefront of our culture—during the Civil War, the era of the Robber Barons, and the Civil Rights Movement—but have now come to fruition in the presidency of Donald Trump. Arguing that the contemporary Republican Party is waging a counterrevolution against the core beliefs of the nation, journalist and scholar Kevin C. O'Leary cracks open American history to reveal the essence of America's liberal heritage by critiquing the reactionary illiberal currents that per

Author

Kevin O'Leary

Publisher

Pegasus Books

Published

2020

Language

EN

ISBN

9781643134345

Subjects

History, Political Science, Humanities