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98-183 GOV: Senate Committees: Categories and Rules for Committee Assignments,A Duke history professor’s latest book has gained critical acclaim, but not without drawing criticisms from two fellow Duke professors.

Nancy MacLean, William H. Chafe professor of history and public policy, released “Democracy in Chains: the Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America” this past summer to national attention. The work—which focuses on the effects of the late economist James M. Buchanan—is one of five texts included on the shortlist for a National Book Award.

However, Georg Vanberg, chair of the political science department, and Professor of Political Science Michael Munger have publicly written about problems they see with the text, with Munger going so far as to call it a “work of speculative historical fiction.”

“The book traces the history of an idea—the idea of enchaining modern