Books
by Heather Cox Richards
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How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America |
Examining the essential paradox of the Founders’ concept that ‘all men are created equal’, the author describes the headlong and relentless pursuit of inequality perpetrated by the Republican party and their nefarious forebears over hundreds of years. She shows the lengths to which bad actors have distorted the public realm to benefit themselves and their friends at the expense of democratic freedoms. Her baleful conclusion: Trump is not an aberration, just the latest manifestation of political chicanery.
(Jeremy Miller - bwl 115 Winter 2025) |
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