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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: Since the late twentieth century, America has become more nostalgic and increasingly stagnant overall.
Chapter 3: Nostalgia unlocked the gateway for the economic right.
Chapter 4: Two men, Milton Friedman and Lewis Powell, proved crucial to the economic right’s resurgence in the 1970s across America.
Chapter 5: The right borrowed strategies from political opponents to consolidate and gain power.
Chapter 6: The American right’s success owes much to widespread liberal complacency overall.
Chapter 7: Political shifts launched by the economic right in the 1980s still continue to shape the United States today.
Chapter 8: One consequence of the right’s 1980s victories was the emergence of financialization across the American economy.
Chapter 9: America must reform dramatically or confront a dystopian future.
Description
Evil Geniuses (2020) describes the rise of the economic right after the 1960s and the consequences of their policies today. From Milton Friedman to Ronald Reagan, it looks at the significance of some of the right’s central figures while also sketching a broader narrative that explains how the US has ended up as it has today.
Who Should Listen
- Anyone interested in American history
- Americans looking for a way to explain their present situation
- Fans of political history and economics