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03322aam a22003858i 4500 001 A5487E509B1711EEA4A9E3232AECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20231215010034 008 220706s2023 nyu b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2022023787 020 $a 1641773030 020 $a 9781641773034 035 $a (OCoLC)1330404604 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCF $d UKMGB $d IHY $d SPP $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a JC574.2.U6 $b S57 2023 100 1 $a Slack, Kevin, $d 1977- $e author. 245 10 $a War on the American republic : $b how liberalism became despotism / $c Kevin Slack. 250 $a First American edition. 264 1 $a New York, New York : $b Encounter Books, $c 2023. 300 $a 440 pages ; $c 24 cm. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 383-425) and index. 505 0 $a Introduction -- Republican citizenship -- Progressivism -- Liberalism -- Radicalism -- Neoliberalism -- Identity politics -- Despotism -- Conclusion. 520 $a "Americans often use the words progressive, liberal, and radical without considering their historical and political origins. While each movement rejected the older American republican principles, there were differences between Teddy Roosevelt's Anglo-Protestant progressive social gospelers who battled the trusts and checked immigration, Franklin Roosevelt and Lyndon Johnson's secular liberals who introduced state capitalism and a civil rights agenda, and the 1960s radicals who protested the Great Society and war in Vietnam. Rather than a peaceful outgrowth, each movement rose in criticism of the one before. This book succinctly and thoroughly clarifies progressivism, liberalism, and radicalism in the history of ideas. But its history of the rise of the Global American Empire is only complete with the story of its fall. The revolution of the 1960s birthed a class divide. Elites on the left and right turned against the industrial middle class to erect an oligarchy at home and globalization abroad. While the radicals ensconced themselves in bureaucracy and academia to complete their systems of Identity Politics, neoliberal elites introduced monopoly capitalism, open borders, and outsourcing. The neoliberals' economic and military failures marked a crisis of legitimacy. In the Great Awokening of Barack Obama's second term, the American oligarchs kissed the ring of Identity Politics and used the covid-19 pandemic and myths of insurrection to strip away the rights of American citizens. Today a kleptocracy of incompetent, corrupt, and degenerate rulers drain the wealthiest and most powerful empire in history"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Liberalism $z United States $x History. 650 0 $a Political culture $z United States $x History. 650 7 $a Liberalism. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00997183. 650 7 $a Political culture. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01069263. 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155. 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628. 776 08 $i Online version: $a Slack, Kevin, 1977- $t War on the American republic $b First American edition. $d New York, New York : Encounter Books, 2023 $z 9781641773041 $w (DLC) 2022023788. 941 $a 1 952 $l HRPE845 $d 20231215010127.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=A5487E509B1711EEA4A9E3232AECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search