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A chilling and clear-eyed warning about the threats to our democracy posed by the increasing radicalization of the Republican Party, from a leading historian and intellectual

The 2024 election could be the last free election held in a unified America. So warns Robert Kagan in this brilliant and terrifying analysis of the perilous state of democracy in the United States today. If Donald Trump loses the upcoming election, as he did in 2020, but refuses to accept the result, as he also did in the last election, he is likely to call on his millions of followers to repudiate the election results. It will be a short step from there to Republican-dominated states rejecting the legitimacy of the federal government and effectively seceding. The United States at that point will cease to be united, with grave consequences for both Americans and the world.

In Rebellion, Kagan dives deeper than the op-eds and think pieces to explore the historical forces that have brought us to this moment—in particular the long history of opposition to liberalism, and to government, that has shaped America’s character from the time of the Revolution to today. Trump’s unique capacity to tap into that tradition of dissent and circumvent the American system has brought us to the edge of dissolution—not for the first time in our history but possibly the last. This is an elegant and deeply informed synthesis of history, contemporary politics, and ideas that sheds light on this crucial moment.
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Adam Gopnik highlights Kagan's critique of post-Civil War anti-liberalism

Alan Elrod critiques liberalism's complex historical narrative

Brian Stewart, Commentary says Engaging and often surprising.

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"An alarming but useful perspective on antiliberalism....[A] timely, well-informed analysis....Kagan cogently examines the bright long-term prospects for the Founders’ concept of liberalism, especially with the nation’s rapidly changing demographics—if Trump does not win the election....A powerful, much-needed political and social analysis that all lovers of democracy should read."
—Kirkus (starred review)

“Kagan details, mordantly, the anti-liberalism that emerged during and after the Civil War, a strain that, just as much as today’s version, insisted on a ‘Christian commonwealth’ founded essentially on wounded white working-class pride.”—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker

"A concise but thorough tour through the influence of American liberalism’s malign twin . . . Kagan manages to diagnose both the acute and chronic nature of our present crisis."—Alan Elrod, Liberal Currents

“A brilliant analyst and polemicist, Kagan argues that the 2024 presidential election could be the last free election held in a unified United States. He justifies this dire warning with a detailed account of the right’s drift towards authoritarianism—and traces the historical roots of Donald Trump’s appeal to a long tradition of anti-liberal thought in the US.” —Gideon Rachman and Frederick Studemann, Financial Times

“The chief, and at times reassuring, virtue of Rebellion is [its] historical perspective, alloyed with Kagan’s hopeful tone.” —Bill Thompson, Los Angeles Review of Books

“Engaging and often surprising.” —Brian Stewart, Commentary

"Comprehensive and compelling." —Jennifer Bort Yacovissi, Washington Independent Review of Books

About the Author

ROBERT KAGAN is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and a columnist for The Washington Post. He is the author of The Ghost at the Feast, The Return of History and the End of Dreams, Dangerous Nation, Of Paradise and Power, and A Twilight Struggle. He served in the U.S. State Department from 1984 to 1988. He lives in Virginia.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Knopf
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ April 30, 2024
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 256 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0593535782
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0593535783
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.38 x 0.92 x 7.81 inches
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Customers appreciate the book's historical content, with one noting how it weaves history together effectively. Moreover, the text is eminently readable and serves as an educational resource, with one customer highlighting its timely analysis of anti-liberalism.

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Customers appreciate the book's historical content, finding it great and providing a succinct explanation of its premise. One customer notes that it is based on historical facts.

"...This book is a brilliant analysis of what the founding fathers created in 1776 and what it means in the context of the age of Trump...." Read more

"...Mr. Kagan offers readers a very good account of the constant struggle between liberalism and anti-liberalism, the struggle for individual rights..." Read more

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  • Laurie
    5.0 out of 5 stars Best Book Out There On Topic
    Reviewed in the United States on January 1, 2025
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    This book is a must-read.

    I have a rather large library of books on the Trump threat. Some are good, many repeat conventional left doctrine. Whether you agree with left doctrine or not, it gets monotonous and is unoriginal. It also turns off conservatives.

    This author is not only a prominent conservative, he is, or was, an actual neocon. His thesis is that the MAGA crowd is just a new incarnation of an old American threat. The book provides a neat summary of American classical liberal progress through history, noting that malcontents have resisted it at practically every step. It ends with a description of the Trump threat that is one of most articulate and compelling I’ve ever read.

    The book is so good that I listened to it 3 times as an audiobook and bought the Kindle version. I’d give it to everyone if I could. I have never heard or read a more accurate description of what is at stake.
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  • Swamp47
    5.0 out of 5 stars Liberal Democracy in Jeopardy
    Reviewed in the United States on June 28, 2025
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    It has been said that democracy is a never ending journey. Mr. Kagan offers readers a very good account of the constant struggle between liberalism and anti-liberalism, the struggle for individual rights for all and the effort to deny those rights to others. Trump ranks among those who would deny liberal rights to others. If democracy and individual rights mean anything to readers, they must be prepared to struggle to keep them. Trump aspires to tyranny. If Americans remain silent and passive, he will succeed.
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  • Jim Morris
    4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent perspective
    Reviewed in the United States on August 7, 2024
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    He suggests that the ideas in the Declaration and the Constitution were concocted by a small group while the population neither understood or supported them. It really was an experiment whose outcome is still in doubt. He doesn’t know Biden would drop out.
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  • Rudy Serra
    5.0 out of 5 stars Easy to read, educational, and persuasive
    Reviewed in the United States on February 9, 2025
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    Excellent, thoughtful, easy to read and scholarly material. If I could - I would make this book more widely know and more widely read.
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  • Bashar E
    5.0 out of 5 stars A great perspective on our unique American Liberal Democracy.
    Reviewed in the United States on August 19, 2024
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    A great read. Kagan makes valid points about our liberal founding principals and the history of the anti-liberal forces that have fought them throughout the last 200 years. Today’s Trump’s MAGA anti-liberal camp comes into sharp focus when looked at in such a historical view. It is true that the history of the extreme Right cannot be separated from the history of the institution of slavery and the struggle of America to rid itself of it, and this book puts the spot light on that history and the stark choice and challenge facing us this upcoming 2024 election to keep our freedom and liberal democracy alive for years to come.
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  • Tyrone Roseberry
    5.0 out of 5 stars Happy
    Reviewed in the United States on April 16, 2025
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    good book.
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  • Marilyn
    5.0 out of 5 stars A New Frame for an Old Conflict
    Reviewed in the United States on June 12, 2024
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    Robert Kagan explains the current struggle between Democrats and Republicans as an extension of the inherent struggle created by the Founding Fathers when they declared American freedoms to be based on "natural human rights." By focusing on the terms "liberal" and "illiberal," he tells a history of the United States by describing how these two ways of thinking have always caused conflict within the American populace. Whether the topic is religion, economics or social structure, Americans' differing perspectives always have either a "liberal" or "illiberal" foundation. The result is a highly readable text that doesn't get bogged down in highly emotional rhetoric.

    I understand the challenge of our 2024 election with a new clarity, and I highly recommend this book to anyone trying to make sense of what appears to be irrationality on both the "left" and "right" in this pre-election season. "Rebellion..." is a short history that every American voter should read.
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  • Misha Elle
    5.0 out of 5 stars Kagan is fluent in the ways of freedom
    Reviewed in the United States on November 27, 2024
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    The authors ability to weave history together with a liberal perspective is beyond admirable. He properly shades Trump’s malignancy to America by using Trump’s one and oft repeated words.

    Yet there is something overwrought in the narrative, if only to the extent that our institutions are portrayed as fragile to the point of buckling under a strong gust of wind. They aren’t.

    Kagan misses only this element in his book though and any reader is better off for having read it.
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  • Joanne F.
    5.0 out of 5 stars Definitely worth reading
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 13, 2025
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    Really fascinating topic
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  • BlueGreenOD
    4.0 out of 5 stars A terrific summary of how liberalism is so powerful and yet so vulnerable
    Reviewed in Australia on June 18, 2024
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    Kagan performs a bold exercise, seeking to explain the tension that liberalism holds in the history of ideas and practice. The good news is he pulls it off and explains how vigilance without virtue is vanity. And now with 5 months to go before the 2024 election, liberalism is on the ballot. Let’s hope it prevails as it has when in dire straits before.
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  • T McAleenan
    4.0 out of 5 stars The end of the Republic
    Reviewed in France on January 12, 2025
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    Nicely done putting the Trump phenomena in a longer term context of the whole evolution of the Republic from its inception till now, constantly referring back to the liberal republic the founding fathers actually attempted to instil, unfortunately all these educated elite attempts at explanation and warning have not succeeded in convincing American voters not to vote for the clear and present danger that begins all too soon
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  • Thomas A. Regelski
    5.0 out of 5 stars read before election
    Reviewed in Germany on June 6, 2024
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    critical and crucial reading
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  • Günther van Endert
    4.0 out of 5 stars Interessant angesichts der heutigen USA
    Reviewed in Germany on December 19, 2024
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    Das Buch exerziert die These, nach der der in der Sklavenzeit vorhandene Rassismus in abgewandelter Form nie die USA verlassen hat.
    Historisch sei er immer dann aufgeblüht, wenn eine sehr starke Einwanderung stattgefunden habe. Dann sei der Liberalismus strukturell sehr geschwächt worden.
    Ein Beispiel ist der reaktionäre Rollback der 20er Jahre nach der Masseneinwanderung von 20 Millionen Italienern, russischen Juden u. a.. Ein weiteres aktuelles Beispiel ist Trumps aktuell verfangender Rassismus, nachem in den letzten Dekaden 50 Millionen aus Südamerika, Afrika u. a. eingewandert sind.
    Das ist sicherlich eine diskutable These eines 'neokonservativen' Autors.
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