Nancy MacLean is een bekroonde auteur wiens werken zich verdiepen in complexe sociale en politieke kwesties. Ze richt zich op de historische wortels van hedendaagse problemen en ontrafelt de verborgen motivaties en strategieën die het publieke leven vormgeven. Haar schrijfstijl wordt gekenmerkt door diepgaand onderzoek en scherpe analyses, die lezers helpen de dynamiek van macht en ideologie te begrijpen. MacLean biedt een kritische kijk op de Amerikaanse geschiedenis en de impact ervan op het heden.
Elegantly written and meticulously researched, this book offers a major new interpretation of the Ku Klux Klan in America, placing the organization in its context of class and gender as well as race and religion.
An explosive exposé of the man who devoted his career to shackling democracy -- and succeeded. Libertarian billionaires are using their wealth and power to drastically curtail the US democratic process, disempowering ordinary citizens whilst entrenching the influence of corporations as never before. In Democracy in Chains, award-winning historian Nancy MacLean reveals how the ideas of Nobel Prize-winning political economist James McGill Buchanan have been used to undermine the power of voters in a country whose Constitution is founded on the principle 'We the people'. Now, with Mike Pence as Vice President, this chilling movement has a loyalist in the White House, as well as supporters in the House, the Senate, a majority of state governments, and the courts. Democracy in Chainsis a timely, important book, which should be read by anybody interested in the future of democracy.