NANCY MACLEAN
ON THE REAL FACE OF THE AMERICAN FAR RIGHT
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PRESERVING OUR LIFE AS IT IS. THE NATURE OF THEIR GOALS IS ALMOST UNBELIEVABLE
FOR ITS’ DEPARTURE FROM WHAT I VIEW AS CIVILIZATION.
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Disagreements
between the American right and left have led many journalists and activists to
investigate the factors at work deep within our political factions. Nancy
MacLean, the William Chafe Professor of history and Public Policy at Duke
University, joins us with a deep-delving interrogation of the American right
and presents a decade of research and insight from her book Democracy in
Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America.
MacLean shares her account of a relentless campaign by the radical rich to
eliminate unions, suppress voting, stop action on climate change, alter the
U.S. Constitution, and privatize everything from schools to Medicare and Social
Security. She describes this game plan in terms of its key figures in the
radical right—such as billionaire Charles Koch and the network of wealthy
right-wing donors he has built, and Nobel Prize-winning political economist
James McGill Buchanan and his attempts to preserve the white elite’s power in
the wake of Brown v. Board of Education.
MacLean is
joined onstage in conversation with Nick Licata, former Seattle City
Councilmember and current activist and author. Together MacLean and Licata
explore the genesis of the seemingly unexpected swing in our nation’s larger
political dialogue towards populism and far-right rhetoric, from its beginnings
in academia to its eventual embrace and financial backing by powerful and
wealthy individuals and interest groups. Join MacLean and Licata for an
incisive discussion of the roots of our nation’s growing political divide, and
its potential to irrevocably alter the American government.
Nancy
MacLean is the award-winning author of Behind the Mask of Chivalry (a New York
Times “noteworthy” book of the year) and Freedom is Not Enough, which the
Chicago Tribune called “contemporary history at its best.” She is the William
Chafe Professor of history and Public Policy at Duke University, and the
immediate past president of the Labor and Working Class History Association
(LAWCHA).
Thanks to
Seattle Town Hall & Third Place Books
Recorded
4/7/18
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Nancy
MacLean
Nancy
MacLean
William H.
Chafe Professor of History and Public Policy
nancy.maclean@duke.edu
Overview
Nancy
MacLean is an award-winning scholar of the twentieth-century U.S., whose new
book, Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan
for America, has been described by Publishers Weekly as “a thoroughly
researched and gripping narrative… [and] a feat of American intellectual and
political history.” Booklist called it “perhaps the best explanation to date of
the roots of the political divide that threatens to irrevocably alter American
government.” http://bit.ly/2oJklds. A finalist for the National Book Award in
Nonfiction, it won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Current Interest, the
Lannan Foundation Cultural Freedom Award, and the Lillian Smith Book Award.
MacLean is
the author of four other books, including Freedom is Not Enough: The Opening of
the American Workplace (2006) called by the Chicago Tribune "contemporary
history at its best,” and Behind the Mask of Chivalry: The Making of the Second
Ku Klux Klan, named a New York Times "noteworthy" book of 1994. Her
articles and review essays have appeared in American Quarterly, The Boston
Review, Feminist Studies, Gender & History, In These Times, International
Labor and Working Class History, Labor, Labor History, Journal of American
History, Journal of Women’s History, Law and History Review, The Nation, the
OAH Magazine of History, and many edited collections.
Professor
MacLean’s scholarship has received more than a dozen prizes and awards and been
supported by fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, the
National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Humanities Center, the
Russell Sage Foundation, and the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowships
Foundation. In 2010, she was elected a fellow of the Society of American
Historians, which recognizes literary distinction in the writing of history and
biography. Also an award-winning teacher and committed graduate student mentor,
she offers courses on twentieth-century America, social movements, and public
policy history.
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