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Illuminates one of the most widely used yet poorly understood concepts in contemporary discourse, as apt and relevant to democracy in America as it is to Eastern Europe and Putin’s Russia.

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"""Oligarchy in America explains how arguments as diverse as Herbert Spencer's social Darwinism and Tucker Carlson's anti-elitism, suture the interests of the ultra-rich to state politics and disenfranchises the ordinary electorate, upending the arithmetic of democracy. It is a must read for those interested in rhetoric and the increasingly fraught politics of democracy."" --Catherine Chaput is author of Market Affect and the Rhetoric of Political Economic Debates"

""Oligarchy in America explains how arguments as diverse as Herbert Spencer's social Darwinism and Tucker Carlson's anti-elitism, suture the interests of the ultra-rich to state politics and disenfranchises the ordinary electorate, upending the arithmetic of democracy. It is a must read for those interested in rhetoric and the increasingly fraught politics of democracy."" --Catherine Chaput is author of Market Affect and the Rhetoric of Political Economic Debates

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Luke Winslow is an associate professor of rhetorical studies in the Department of Communication at Baylor University. He is author of American Catastrophe: Fundamentalism, Climate Change, Gun Rights, and the Rhetoric of Donald J. Trump, Economic Injustice and the Rhetoric of the American Dream, and coauthor of Children as Rhetorical Advocates in Social Movements.

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