Prologue : fear of a white minority -- Laboratory for oligarchy -- The fury of democracy -- The new nullification -- The death of the autopsy and the birth of the big lie -- The most dangerous branch -- The new American majority -- The institutional coup -- The electoral coup -- The insurrection through other means -- Democracy on the ballot -- New-school election denial meets old-school voter suppression -- The gerrymandering of history -- Epilogue : a new laboratory for democracy

"A riveting account of the decades-long effort by reactionary white conservatives to undermine democracy and entrench their power-and the movement to stop them"--