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Scholars on both sides manned their ramparts without actually reading the entire book.

MacLean’s sympathizers have also quickly dug in, branding the criticism a Koch-backed smear campaign. A phalanx of largely libertarian critics has waged an online battle against the Duke University historian who wrote the book, Nancy MacLean, accusing her of scholarly misdeeds so egregious that she should be stripped of tenure, fired, and perhaps sued. But the argument over a new intellectual history of the right has played out with unusual intensity. Polemical books often provoke a strong response. Duke Photography Nancy MacLean, a professor of history and public policy at Duke U., has riled libertarians with her new book, “Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America.”