Who Owns Democracy? : The Real Deep State and the Struggle Over Class and Caste in America (Paperback)

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