American Apocalypse: The Six Far-Right Groups Waging War on Democracy

The war on American democracy is at a fever pitch. Such a corrosive state of affairs did not arise spontaneously but instead was pushed, top-down, by six private sector special interest groups. In American Apocalypse Rena Steinzor argues that these groups are nothing more than well-financed armies fighting a battle of attrition against the national government.



The book begins at the end of Lyndon Johnson's presidency, when the modern regulatory state was born. Agencies like the Environmental...