Nancy MacLean

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In 2017 MacLean published Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America. The book focuses on the Nobel Prize-winning political economist James McGill Buchanan and his work developing public choice theory, as well as the roles of Charles Koch and others in nurturing the libertarian movement in the United States. MacLean argues that these figures undertook "a stealth bid to reverse-engineer all of America, at both the state and national levels back to the political economy and oligarchic governance of midcentury Virginia, minus the segregation." [18] According to MacLean, Buchanan represents "the true origin story of today's well-heeled radical right". [19] Some academic critics, mostly libertarians, have disputed the book's argument and have called MacLean's thesis a "conspiracy theory". [20] [21] [22]

Honors

In 1995 MacLean received the Frank L. and Harriet C. Owsley Prize from the Southern Historical Association. [2] In 2010, she was elected a Fellow of the Society of American Historians. In 2007, she received the Philip Taft Labor History Book Award of the Labor and Working Class Studies Association. In 2007 she received the Allan Sharlin Book Award for the best book in social science history from the Social Science History Association. In 2007 she received the Willard Hurst Prize for best book in socio-legal history from the Law and Society Association. In 2007 she received the Labor History Best Book Prize from the International Association of Labor History Institutions. Democracy in Chains was a finalist for the 2017 National Book Award for nonfiction, [23] a finalist for the "Los Angeles Times Book Award in Current Interest", [24] and the winner of the Lannar Foundation Cultural Freedom Award. [25] The book was also named "Most Valuable Book of 2017" by The Nation. [26] In 2018, Democracy in Chains won the Lillian Smith Book Award, for "books that are outstanding creative achievements, worthy of recognition because of their literary merit, moral vision, and honest representation of the South, its people, problems, and promises." [27]

Books

References

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  2. 1 2 "Faculty CV" (PDF).
  3. DeSantis, Nick (29 March 2013). "N.C. Scholars Team Up to Push Back Against Republican Legislature". The Chronicle of Higher Education. Retrieved 8 July 2017.
  4. Tang, Katie (February 24, 2010). "More than 320 students rally for the Living Wage Campaign". North by Northwestern. Retrieved 8 July 2017.
  5. Duke University – Scholars@Duke , retrieved July 8, 2017
  6. "Scholars for North Carolina's Future". sites.duke.edu. Retrieved 2018-04-04.
  7. Kostrzewa, Gabriella (3 April 2012). "Professors Denounce NC Republican Legislature's Policies". The Daily Tar Heel . Retrieved 8 July 2017.
  8. DeSantis, Nick (29 March 2013). "N.C. Scholars Team Up to Push Back Against Republican Legislature". The Chronicle of Higher Education. Retrieved 8 July 2017.
  9. Vassiliadis, Kim (March 22, 2013). "Scholars for a Progressive North Carolina will hold public forum, March 28, 5:00 pm, at Sanford School, Duke". Faculty Governance News. Retrieved July 8, 2017.
  10. Roper, John Herbert (1996). "Behind the Mask of Chivalry: The Making of the Second Ku Klux Klan (review)". Southern Cultures. 2 (2): 258–260. doi:10.1353/scu.1996.0010. S2CID   143533969.
  11. Aynes, Richard (Summer 2007). "Review". The Historian: 807.
  12. Behind the Mask of Chivalry: The Making of the Second Ku Klux Klan. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press. 1995. ISBN   978-0195098365.
  13. Jenkins, William D. (1995). "Review of Behind the Mask of Chivalry: The Making of the Second Ku Klux Klan". Journal of Social History. 29 (1): 218–220. doi:10.1353/jsh/29.1.218. JSTOR   3788735.
  14. Kousser, J. Morgan. "Behind the Mask of Chivalry: The Making of the Second Ku Klux Klan [Book Review]". Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences. (book link).
  15. "An NU professor looks at justice on the job". tribunedigital-chicagotribune. Retrieved 2017-07-06.
  16. Mack, Kenneth W. (2009). "Bringing the Law Back into the History of the Civil Rights Movement" . Law and History Review. 27 (3): 657–669. doi:10.1017/s0738248000003941. S2CID   204327088.
  17. MacLean, Nancy (2009). "Response to Ken Mack – and New Questions for the History of African American Legal Liberalism in the Age of Obama". Law and History Review. pp. 671–679. JSTOR   40646062.
  18. MacLean, Nancy (2017). Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America. Penguin. ISBN   978-1101980989.[ page needed ]
  19. Onion, Rebecca (2017-06-22). "What Is the Far Right's Endgame? A Society That Suppresses the Majority". Slate . ISSN   1091-2339 . Retrieved 2017-07-10.
  20. Henry Farrell (political scientist) and Steve Teles, "Even the intellectual left is drawn to conspiracy theories about the right. Resist them" Vox.com, July 14, 2017
  21. David Bernstein (law professor), "Duke Historian Nancy Maclean's Wacky Conspiracy Theory" Reason Magazine, August 6, 2017
  22. "Rick Perlstein, author of a trilogy of books on the history of conservatism, echoes their critique. "The foundation of the entire book is a conspiracy theory that suggests that if you understand THIS ONE SECRET PLAN, you understand the rise of the right in America in its entirety." Marc Parry "A New History of the Right Has Become an Intellectual Flashpoint" The Chronicle of Higher Education, July 19, 2017
  23. "2017 National Book Award finalists revealed". CBS News. October 4, 2017. Retrieved 2017-10-04.
  24. Schaub, Michael (21 February 2018). "L.A. Times Book Prize finalists include Joyce Carol Oates and Ta-Nehisi Coates; John Rechy receives lifetime achievement award". Los Angeles Times . Retrieved 2018-04-04.
  25. "Lannan Foundation". Lannan Foundation. Retrieved 2018-04-04.
  26. Nichols, John (2017-12-20). "The 2017 Progressive Honor Roll". The Nation. ISSN   0027-8378. Archived from the original on 2018-04-05. Retrieved 2018-04-04.
  27. "Lillian Smith Book Awards". www.libs.uga.edu. Hargrett Library : University of Georgia Libraries. Archived from the original on 2018-05-21. Retrieved 2018-05-20.
  28. Reviews for Behind the Mask of Chivalry:
  29. Reviews for Freedom Is Not Enough:
  30. Nelson, Carrie A. L. (Summer 2009). "The American Women's Movement, 1945–2000: A Brief History with Documents". Feminist Collections . 30 (3): 15. ProQuest   221143079 ]. Retrieved July 9, 2022.
  31. Reviews for Scalawag:
Nancy MacLean
Nancy MacLean, Capturing Democracy.png
MacLean speaking in 2019
Born
Nancy K. MacLean

1959 (age 6566)
United States
Academic background
Education
Doctoral advisor Linda Gordon