If You Want to Understand the Roots of Our Current Political Situation – Read this Book!
Over the last few weeks I am finding it more and more difficult to post. Again I haven’t stopped reading, listening or exercising just that when I sit down to write a post, I get distracted and pick up a book or good do something else. Anyway I just finished book 9 of 2017. The following read though is for book 7. Hopefully, if I can get myself focused and motivated reviews for book 8 Parting Shot by Linwood Barclay and book 9 Descent by Tim Johnston, will follow shortly.
Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America by Nancy MacLean.
“How did we get to where we are today? How did corporations come to possess rights? How did democracy come to be defined as selfish individualism? Or money as free speech? Nancy Maclean’s Democracy in Chains provides the answers. It is essential reading in order to understand the ideas billionaires use to justify their control over our political institutions. I can’t imagine a more timely or urgent book.”
Bottom Line
I found this book scary and very enlightening. The book is well written, easy to read and well documented. So once again if you want to read how we got to the point where our country has become an oligarchy with the 1 percent running the country.So check it out. The author of Democracy in Chains, Nancy MacLean is The William H Chafe Professor of History and Public Policy at Duke University.
Links for Further Explorations
Democracy in Chains – Duke University
Goodreads
Penquin Random House
