Renowned historian, Kim Phillips-Fein is out with a new book exploring the longstanding counter tradition in U.S. history that rejects the premise of the Declaration of Independence and proudly proclaims that all men are NOT created equal. In Country of Lords, from W.W. Norton & Co., Professor Phillips-Fein, Robert Gardiner-Kenneth T Jackson Professor of History at Columbia University, traces a variety of anti-egalitarian ideals via profiles of leading figures throughout U.S. history with particular emphasis on how such authoritarian and elitist philosophies have both captured and been propagated by leading figures in Silicon Valley. A Pulitzer Prize finalist for her highly regarded book about New York City’s Fiscal Crisis in the 1970’s, Fear City has a knack for making complex history come alive in easily readable fashion. And her goal is clearly to help us understand this tradition so that we can fight it more successfully.