{"product_id":"chain-of-ideas-the-origins-of-our-authoritarian-age-9780593978023","title":"Chain of Ideas: The Origins of Our Authoritarian Age","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe National Book Award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eStamped from the Beginning\u003c\/i\u003e charts how \"great replacement theory\" has become a dominant political idea of our time and ushered in an antidemocratic age. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"[Kendi] has a gift for tracing how historical ideas metastasize into present, real-world damage. . . . Kendi reveals the mechanics behind the myth, and why confronting it is now a democratic necessity.\"--\u003ci\u003eOprah Daily \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNAMED ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2026 BY: \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times, Oprah Daily, LitHub, Foreign Policy, The Millions\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRecall the words chanted in Charlottesville, Virginia: \"You will not replace us!\" Recall the string of mass shooters across the globe--in Oslo, Christchurch, Buffalo, El Paso, and Pittsburgh--who claimed their crimes were a defense against \"White genocide.\" Recall business and media figures cultivating anxiety and furor over demographic change. These incidents only scratch the surface: Popular and ruling politicians in every region of the world have expressed some version of great replacement theory, eroding democratic norms in the name of preventing demographic change. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe term was coined in 2011 by a French novelist who argued that Black and Brown immigrants were \"invading\" Europe, brought by shadowy elites to \"replace\" the White population. From there, politicians and theorists in the United States and elsewhere repackaged it as a story of \"globalists\" welcoming \"migrant criminals\" and promoting diversity to take away the jobs, cultures, electoral power, and very lives of White people. Over time, great replacement theory has expanded those under threat to include citizens, men, Jews, Christians, heterosexuals, and ethnic majorities in countries as distinct as Russia, El Salvador, Brazil, Italy, and India, all targeted with the message that they are facing an existential attack that only a strongman can prevent. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eChain of Ideas\u003c\/i\u003e, internationally bestselling author Ibram X. Kendi offers an unsettling but indispensable global history of how great replacement theory brought humanity into this authoritarian age--and how we can free ourselves from it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ibram X. Kendi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e One World\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/17\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 592\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.36h x 5.68w x 1.66d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780593978023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/15\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/26\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDr. Ibram X. Kendi \u003c\/b\u003eis a professor of history and the founding director of the Howard University Institute for Advanced Study, an interdisciplinary research enterprise examining global racism. He is the author of the National Book Award-winning \u003ci\u003eStamped from the Beginning \u003c\/i\u003eand the international bestseller \u003ci\u003eHow to Be an Antiracist\u003c\/i\u003e and has been awarded a MacArthur Fellowship, popularly known as the Genius Grant.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Ibram X. Kendi \/ Hardcover \/ English","offer_id":47754028875933,"sku":"9780593978023","price":60.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/files\/img_33c31bec-670c-4cb6-b962-8ea839564f1f.jpg?v=1774331629","url":"https:\/\/booksdeli.com\/products\/chain-of-ideas-the-origins-of-our-authoritarian-age-9780593978023","provider":"booksdeli.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}