Nancy MacLean and Anastasia Mann will be at Labyrinth Books on Wednesday, November 29 at 6 p.m. discussing MacLean’s new book, Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America (Viking 2017).

The Atlantic calls it a “vibrant intellectual history of the radical right …. What we think of as dysfunction is the result of years of strategic effort.”

Nancy MacLean is the award-winning author of Behind the Mask of Chivalry: The Making of the Second Ku Klux Klan and Freedom is Not Enough: The Opening of the American Workplace. She is a professor of history and public policy at Duke University. Anastasia R. Mann holds a doctorate in 20th century U.S. history from Northwestern University. Her career spans private nonprofits (Latin American Legal Defense and Education Fund, New Jersey Policy Perspective), higher education (Northwestern, Princeton, and Rutgers), and government (Princeton Human Services Commission and New Jersey Commission on New Americans). She is currently a lecturer at Princeton University.