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  title info:
    title: Minority rule
    sub title: the right-wing attack on the will of the people--and the fight to resist it
  name:
    name part: Berman, Ari
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2024
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 369 pages ; 24 cm
  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.
  table of 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.
  note: Ari Berman.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-350) and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: Politics and government
    temporal: 1989-
  subject:
    topic: Conservatism
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Democracy
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
    temporal: 21st century
  subject:
    topic: White people
    topic: Race identity
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Right and left (Political science)
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
    temporal: 21st century
  subject:
    geographic: États-Unis
    topic: Politique et gouvernement
    temporal: 1989-
  subject:
    topic: Conservatisme
    geographic: États-Unis
    topic: Histoire
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY / United States / General
  classification: JK1726 .B4745 2024
  classification: E893 .B476 2024
  classification: 305.809/073
  classification: 320.52/0973
  identifier: 9780374600211
  identifier: 037460021X
  identifier: 2023045468
  location:
    physical location: pda,print
  record info:
    record content source: LBSOR
    record creation date: 231224
    record change date: 20250318222558.4
    record identifier: in00005464161
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng