Country of Lords: Neo-Aristocrats, Social Darwinists, Tech Utopians, and the Long Fight against Equality in America

An Independent Press Bestseller

The story of American history is often told as a hard-won march toward the promise of equality, derived from Thomas Jefferson’s famous proclamation that “all men are created equal.”

But this inspiring story obscures a parallel tradition: an enduring and organized argument against equality itself. Again and again, infl...