Russell Hasan

Lord of the Right: A Political History of the Rise of the American Right, Tracing the Similarity Between the Objectivist Movement and the MAGA Movement (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

For Gen Z, Millennials, and Gen X, no figure in American history has been more polarizing than Donald Trump, and no politician has had more influence on the Right. However, if you look back to the Boomer generation, the Silent generation and the Greatest generation, there has been one other person who was equally radical, influential, and polarizing, one who found a Right that had become cowardly, soft, weak, and anemic, and who remade and reforged the Right in their own image and bent the traditional Right-wing establishment to their will, and who was that person? That's right, you guessed it, it was none other than Ayn Rand. This short book explores the eerily similar parallels between these two key figures who dominated the history of the Right in the USA, Rand from the 1960s to 1980s, and Trump in the 2010s and 2020s. No two figures have done more to break down and destroy the traditional establishments of the Right and then rebuild them into stronger, tougher, more muscular, more fortress-like institutions than Ayn Rand and Donald Trump. This history book will trace the distinctive and shocking similarities between the two figures, and will even go on to argue that Donald Trump is, in many ways, the one true intellectual heir of Ayn Rand, and that the Trumpism movement is cashing in on the groundwork for the principled radicalization of the American Right which was laid by Ayn Rand, using a foundation of Right-wing radicalism, and a playbook of how to build morale and instill patriotic idealism among the Right-wing base, which had been built by Ayn Rand in an earlier generation.
This book seeks to make sense of the MAGA movement by placing it in a decades-old historical context, which makes it easier to understand its rise and ascendency to dominance in the modern American Right. The radicalization of the Right under Donald Trump is often viewed as a new phenomenon, but this book argues that it began with Ayn Rand and her so-called radicals for capitalism. A must-read for fans of history, politics, current events and political science.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Russell Hasan
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Juni 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798231775941
• Artikelnr.: 74624415

Autorenporträt

Russell Hasan was born the son of a white Jewish mother and a dark-skinned Muslim fatherand that isn't the strangest thing about him. His father had ties to the mafianope, not the weirdest thing about him. He thought he was a gay man for many years before realizing he is agender asexualrelatively normal compared to what truly makes him strange. Do you want to know what the weirdest, strangest thing about Russell is?

He's a WRITER.

Yes, that's right. He writes. Why? How? Why would he want to do that to himself? How could he allow this to happen to himself? He is still trying to figure that one out. Therapy can cure lots of things and alcohol and drugs can cure other things, but the only cure for being a writer is to write, so he writes. He's not into BDSM, yet for some reason he has chosen to punish himself by having a passion for writing and a need to write. Despite having made the huge mistake of choosing to be a writer, his books have sold over 10,000 copies, so perhaps it was not the worst mistake he ever made after all. He does not have one particular bestseller but has instead spread those 10,000 sales across many books he wrote. His magical journey of self-torture begins when he has the idea for a new book, and then continues when he wakes up at 6am to write from 6am to 8am before work every day (he has a day jobhe's not insane! His day job is being a lawyer, the most boring, evil job in the world, by the way), and, after many cups of Starbucks matcha tea and Coca Cola (never Pepsiyuck!) he somehow puts words onto a page. He has written 30 books, both nonfiction and fiction, but, as something of a twist on the traditional successful indie author model, he is known more for his indie nonfiction, not his fiction. But he does write fiction. Some of his fiction is good too, probably, he hopes.