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

Named one of Financial Times’s Best Books of 2025

and written in the context of mass consolidation

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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