Oligarchy in America: Power, Justice, and the Rule of the Few by Luke Winslow

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/805199 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Oligarchy in America: Power, Justice, and the Rule of the Few Author: Luke Winslow Narrator: Tom Parks Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 27 minutes Release date: October 10, 2024 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: To an American, oligarchy is something that happens somewhere else. In Oligarchy in America, Luke Winslow reveals oligarchy's deep intellectual roots and alarming growth in America. The book provides conceptual tools the lack of which have prevented Americans from recognizing oligarchy at home. Winslow argues that generic labels like 'billionaires' for a class of ultra-rich masks the pervasive structures that entrench their power. He introduces instead the concept of democratic oligarchy—an institutional arrangement in which the ultra-rich form a class consciously creating and leveraging state power to accumulate wealth. Like a master class in political ideas, Winslow traces the intellectual lineage of oligarchy in the US. His lively survey examines key rhetorical sources such as Herbert Spencer, Andrew Carnegie, Friedrich Hayek, Lewis Powell, Milton Friedman, Charles Koch, Donald Trump, Tucker Carlson, and others. Oligarchy in America maps the connective web of oligarchic ideas uniting these disparate figures. Winslow makes a vital contribution to readers and scholars of communication and rhetorical studies, public address, economics, and political science.