Country of Lords - Neo-Aristocrats, Social Darwinists, Tech Utopians, and the Long Fight Against Equality in America Esme Louise James and personal insights from her

and personal insights from her own diagnosis

they were also made to give weekly concerts for Nazi officers

―Matthew Desmond

and written in the context of mass consolidation

Country of Lords - Neo-Aristocrats, Social Darwinists, Tech Utopians, and the Long Fight Against Equality in America Esme Louise James and personal insights from herBy: 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