Country of Lords - Neo-Aristocrats, Social Darwinists, Tech Utopians, and the Long Fight Against Equality in America Esme Louise James Named one of Financial Times’s

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Country of Lords - Neo-Aristocrats, Social Darwinists, Tech Utopians, and the Long Fight Against Equality in America Esme Louise James Named one of Financial Times’sBy: Kim Phillips fein Published by W. W. Norton, Incorporated, 2026 07 21 We think of the United States as a nation committed, at least on paper, to ideals of human equality, under God and or under the law. But as robust as the notion of the "American dream" is a longstanding defense of social hierarchies, including vast gulfs between rich and poor. Drawing on forgotten characters and neglected archives, Kim Phillips Fein tells the story of the