Minority rule : the right-wing attack on the will of the people--and the fight to resist it / Ari Berman.
| Author/creator | Berman, Ari author. |
| Format | Book |
| Edition | First edition. |
| Publication | New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2024. |
| Description | 369 pages ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Prologue : fear of a white minority -- Laboratory for oligarchy -- The fury of democracy -- The new nullification -- The death of the autopsy and the birth of the big lie -- The most dangerous branch -- The new American majority -- The institutional coup -- The electoral coup -- The insurrection through other means -- Democracy on the ballot -- New-school election denial meets old-school voter suppression -- The gerrymandering of history -- Epilogue : a new laboratory for democracy. |
| Abstract | "A riveting account of the decades-long effort by reactionary white conservatives to undermine democracy and entrench their power--and the movement to stop them. The mob that stormed the Capitol on January 6, 2021, represented an extreme form of the central danger facing American democracy today: a blatant disregard for the will of the majority. But this crisis didn't begin or end with Donald Trump's attempt to overturn the 2020 election. Through voter suppression, election subversion, gerrymandering, dark money, the takeover of the courts, and the whitewashing of history, reactionary white conservatives have strategically entrenched power in the face of massive demographic and political shifts. Ari Berman charts these efforts with sweeping historical research and incisive on-the-ground reporting, chronicling how a wide range of antidemocratic tactics interact with profound structural inequalities in institutions like the Electoral College, the Senate, and the Supreme Court to threaten the survival of representative government in America. "The will of the people," wrote Thomas Jefferson in 1801, "is the only legitimate foundation of any government." But that foundation is crumbling. Some counter-majoritarian measures were deliberately built into the Constitution, which was designed in part to benefit a small propertied, white upper class, but they have metastasized to a degree that the founders of the United States could never have anticipated, undermining the very notion of a government "of the people, by the people, and for the people." Chilling and revelatory, Minority Rule exposes the long history of the conflict between white supremacy and multiracial democracy that has reached a fever pitch today--while also telling the inspiring story of resistance to these regressive efforts"--Book jacket flap. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-350) and index. |
| LCCN | 2023045468 |
| ISBN | 9780374600211 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | 037460021X (hardcover) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Joyner | General Stacks | E893 .B476 2024 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |