{"product_id":"country-of-lords-kim-phillips-fein-9798212745710","title":"Country of Lords: Neo-Aristocrats, Social Darwinists, Tech Utopians, and the Long Fight Against Equality in America","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Pulitzer-finalist historian charts a 250-year-old intellectual and political tradition--the conviction that all Americans are NOT created equal.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe think of the United States as a nation committed, at least on paper, to ideals of human equality, under God and\/or under the law. But as robust as the notion of the \"American dream\" is a longstanding defense of social hierarchies, including vast gulfs between rich and poor.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing on forgotten characters and neglected archives, Kim Phillips-Fein tells the story of the executives, intellectuals, and political leaders who have argued that the words of the Declaration of Independence--that \"all men are created equal\"--are a myth. John Adams, William Graham Sumner, Andrew Carnegie, journalist Lothrop Stoddard, Henry Ford, Harvard psychologist Richard Herrnstein, Peter Thiel, and others represent this counter-tradition of hostility to democratic government. Phillips-Fein explores their ideas, and the aspirations they were reacting to, in order to understand our political life today--in hopes we might imagine a more egalitarian way forward.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Kim Phillips-Fein\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798212745710\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Tantor\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/21\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e CD","brand":"Kim Phillips-Fein","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":48871387660543,"sku":"9798212745710","price":49.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/country-of-lords-kim-phillips-fein-9798212745710","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}