Chain of Ideas: The Origins of Our Authoritarian Age - Hardcover

Ibram Kendi traces the intellectual genealogy of modern authoritarianism, revealing how great replacement theory and other foundational extremist ideas took root.

Chain of Ideas is not a book about ideas in the abstract. It is a National Book Award winner that illuminates our political moment by showing how the intellectual framework of contemporary authoritarianism was built, step by step, over centuries.

Faculty teaching political science, history, or race studies use this to help students understand how ideology hardens into policy. It belongs on any shelf concerned with how democracies fail.