Excellent book laying out the history of James Buchanan, half-organizer and half simple through-line of the right's ascendancy over the back half of the 20th century.

I actually only have two minor quibbles with the book itself, both a little out-of-scope since this is mainly a book to educate and radicalize NPR-ish liberals about the project of the right.

1. The book tangentially touches on it at a few points, but it's very difficult to characterize libertarianism as it's practiced here as any different than the larger conservative project. Because libertarianism as actually practiced here in the US isn't about shrinking the state, but instead about starving the parts that don't help capital (welfare state, etc) while boosting the parts that do (more cops and more military-industrial complex). And for all their fussing about non-aggression pacts and coercion, property rights are ultimately enforced at the barrel of a gun. The non-democratic changes covered here, both in Chile and abroad, are backed by implicit violence more deadly than any progressive taxation.

2. It doesn't go any further than "well now you know what to push back against" at the end. This is sort of what I mean about the book being designed to radicalize libs, because the natural conclusion that falls out at the end is "we need to diminish the power of capital," ideally by placing it too under democratic control. And democratic ownership of the means of production is actually socialism, which would be great and something you should sell to readers of the book! But of course it would alienate people, make the book longer, and probably disqualify you from getting any of those fancy awards.