*You're Invited*

*Talk by Nancy MacLean *
National Book Award finalist Nancy MacLean, author of *Democracy in Chains*,
delivers a lecture on the Virginia-specific roots of the radical political
right. Her talk will be followed by a Q&A, book-signing and reception.

*Dec. 13, 2017*
*7–9 p.m.*
*James Branch Cabell Library*
*Lecture Hall (Room 303) *
*About the Book*

Behind today's headlines of billionaires taking over our government is a
secretive political establishment with long, deep and troubling roots. The
capitalist radical right has been working not simply to change who rules,
but to fundamentally alter *the* rules of democratic governance. But
billionaires did not launch this movement: A white intellectual in the
embattled Jim Crow South did. *Democracy in Chains* names its true
architect—the Nobel Prize-winning political economist James McGill
Buchanan—and dissects the operation he and his colleagues designed over six
decades to alter every branch of government to disempower the majority.
Based on 10 years of unique research, *Democracy in Chains* tells a
chilling story of right-wing academics and big money run amok. This
revelatory work of scholarship is also a call to arms to protect the
achievements of 20th-century American self-government.
*About the Speaker*Nancy MacLean is an American historian and author. She
is the William H. Chafe Professor of History and Public Policy at *Duke
University* <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke_University>. MacLean's
research focuses on race, gender, labor history and social movements in
20th-century U.S. history, with particular attention to the U.S. South. Her
book *Democracy in Chains* is a finalist for the National Book Award for
nonfiction.

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Ray Bonis
Senior Research Associate
Special Collections and Archives
James Branch Cabell Library
VCU Libraries
901 Park Ave. VCU Box 842033
Richmond, VA 23284-2033

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