Who Owns Democracy?

This book uniquely reverses today's MAGA conspiratorial concept of the deep state to reveal how a very real "deeper state" is evident throughout history, back to the founding of American democracy.

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Charles Derber, Professor of Sociology at Boston College, has written 26 books on politics, democracy, fascism, corporations, capitalism, climate change, war, the culture wars, and social change. His bestselling books include The Pursuit of Attention and The Wilding of America. He writes for and has been reviewed in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, Truthout, and other leading media. His books have been translated into 14 languages. Derber is a public intellectual - shortlisted in 2006 by the American Independent Booksellers Association for Hidden Power, the best book in current affairs - who believes that serious ideas should be written in an accessible style. His most recent books include Dying for Capitalism, Welcome to the Revolution, Moving Beyond Fear, Sociopathic Society, and Capitalism: Should You Buy It?

Yale Magrass is a Chancellor Professor of Sociology at University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth. He is the author/co-author of nine books, most co-authored with Charles Derber, and 80 articles. His books include Bully Nation, Glorious Causes, and Capitalism: Should You Buy It? He has served on the boards of professional and scholarly journals and associations including The Library of Social Science, Humanity and Society, and The Bimonthly Review of Law Books. His work focuses upon how militaristic capitalism distorts everyday life as it promotes inequality, bullying, environmental devastation, and war.

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This book uniquely reverses today's MAGA conspiratorial concept of the deep state to reveal how a very real "deeper state" is evident throughout history, back to the founding of American democracy.

Inhalt

Introduction: A conversation about democracy 1. America's democratic veneer: capitalism, fascism, and democracy 2. Birth of a nation: how two deep states created America 3. Robber baron democracy: big money, populists, and fascist ghosts 4. Progressives for democracy? Managing change from the top 5. The deep state in depression: the New Deal, failed capitalists, and deep democrats 6. Guns and butter: Wall Street and suburbia, American empire, and the Cold War against democracy 7. Deep democrats against the deep state: from the New Left to the silent majority in the Vietnam era 8. Born again: corporate globalists unite with the New Right in Reagan's war on democracy 9. Trumped! Cowboy capitalists, the Christian right and how identity politics fuelled the assault on democracy 10. What is to be done? How we can take ownership of democracy