(Un)Chaining democracy: An essay review of Nancy MacLean’s Democracy in chains: The deep history of the Radical Right’s stealth plan for America

Authors

  • Eleni Schirmer
  • Michael W. Apple University of Wisconsin

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14507/er.v25.2345

Author Biographies

Eleni Schirmer

Eleni Schirmer is a Barr Fellow and a researcher and PhD candidate at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She has published a number of articles and chapters on teacher unions and on conservative movements in education. She is also a co-author of The Struggle for Democracy in Education.

Michael W. Apple, University of Wisconsin

Michael W. Apple is John Bascom Professor of Curriculum and Instruction and Educational Policy Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison and Distinguished Visiting Professor at Rowan University. He has written extensively on the limits and possibilities of critically democratic educational reforms. Among his recent books are Can Education Change Society? and The Struggle for Democracy in Education.

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Apple, M. W. (2014). Official Knowledge: Democratic Education in a Conservative Age (3rd ed.). New York: Routledge.

Apple, M. W., Gandin, L. A., Liu, S., Meshulam, A., & Schirmer, E. (2018). The Struggle for Democracy in Education. New York: Routledge.

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Schirmer, E., & Apple, M. W. (2016, September 28). Capital, Power, and Education: “Dark Money” and the Politics of Common-Sense. A critical essay review of Jane Mayer’s Dark Money: The hidden history of the billionaires behind the rise of the Radical Right. Education Review, 23. http://dx.doi.org/10.14507/er.v23.2145s

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Published

2018-01-31

How to Cite

Schirmer, E., & Apple, M. W. (2018). (Un)Chaining democracy: An essay review of Nancy MacLean’s Democracy in chains: The deep history of the Radical Right’s stealth plan for America. Education Review, 25. https://doi.org/10.14507/er.v25.2345

Issue

Vol. 25 (2018)

Section

Book reviews

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