Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right

Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right

• Award-Winning & Critically Acclaimed: Financial Times Best Book of the Year and PROSE Award Winner in Government and Politics—praised by The New York Times as "excellent," "fascinating and important," and "the most up-to-date introduction we have to the MAGA intellectual right reshaping America"
• Inside Look at the New Right Movement: Written by Laura K. Field, a political theorist with nearly a decade of experience in conservative academic circles, offering an insider's perspective on the radical intellectual movement shaping Trump's agenda—including figures like Patrick Deneen, Christopher Rufo, Peter Thiel, and JD Vance
• Essential for Understanding Current Politics: Chronicles how the New Right movement strategized January 6th, created Project 2025, and successfully elevated JD Vance to the vice presidency—revealing their nationalist economics, tight borders, isolationism, and reactionary social values agenda
• Comprehensive Intellectual History: 432 pages of meticulously researched analysis covering the Claremont Institute, National Conservatives, Postliberals, and Hard Right—exploring their culture war against modern liberal pluralism and determination to harness state power in illiberal ways
• Praised by Leading Scholars & Publications: Endorsed as "a pathbreaking intellectual history" by John Ganz (NYT-bestselling author), "essential reading" by Geoffrey Kabaservice, and "a literary event of the highest order" by Nicholas Buccola—with starred reviews from Publishers Weekly and Foreword