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DEATH OF A NATION
Dinesh D'Souza
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DEATH OF A NATION

Plantation Politics and the Making of the Democratic Party

by Dinesh D'Souza

All Points · 2018

Peak rank

#5

Weeks on list

4

Chart History

#1510152018

4 weeks on the Hardcover Nonfiction list, peaking at #5

The #1 New York Times–bestselling author tackles the biggest lie of the left—that America is a society based on white supremacy. Now a major motion picture. Who is killing America? Is it really Donald Trump and a GOP filled with white supremacists? In a major new work of historical revisionism, Dinesh D'Souza makes the provocative case that Democrats are the ones killing America by turning it into a massive nanny state modeled on the Southern plantation system. This sweeping alternative history of the Democratic Party goes back to its foundations in the antebellum South. The slaveholding elite devised the plantation as a means of organizing labor and political support. It was a mini welfare state, a cradle to grave system that bred dependency and punished any urge to independence. This model impressed northern Democrats, inspiring the political machines that traded government handouts for votes from ethnic immigrant blocs. Today's Democrats have expanded to a multiracial plantation of ghettos for blacks, barrios for Latinos, and reservations for Native Americans. Whites are the only holdouts resisting full dependency, and so they are blamed for the bigotry and racial exploitation that is actually perpetrated by the left. Death of a Nation's bracing alternative vision of American history explains the Democratic Party's dark past, reinterprets the roles of figures like Van Buren, FDR and LBJ, and exposes the hidden truth that racism comes not from Trump or the conservative right but rather from Democrats and progressives on the left.

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ISBN-13
9781250167828
ISBN-10
1250167825
Published
2018
Pages
228
Publisher
All Points
Google rating
4.0(5)
Categories
Political Science

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