How We Win the Civil War

Securing a Multiracial Democracy and Ending White Supremacy for Good

By: Steve Phillips

Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn

Steve Phillips's first book, Brown Is the New White, helped shift the national conversation around race and electoral politics, earning a spot on the New York Times and Washington Post bestseller lists and launching Phillips into the upper ranks of trusted observers of the nation's changing demographics and their implications for our political future.

Now, in How We Win the Civil War, Phillips charts the way forward for progressives and people of color after four years of Trump, arguing that Democrats must recognize the nature of the fight we're in, which is a contest between democracy and white supremacy left unresolved after the Civil War. We will not overcome, Phillips writes, until we govern as though we are under attack—until we finally recognize that the time has come to finish the conquest of the Confederacy and all that it represents.

With his trademark blend of political analysis and historical argument, Phillips lays out razor-sharp prescriptions for 2022 and beyond, from increasing voter participation and demolishing racist immigration policies to reviving the Great Society programs of the 1960s—all of them geared toward strengthening a new multiracial democracy and ridding our politics of white supremacy, once and for all.

©2022 Steve Phillips (P)2022 HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books

We have so much work to do!

Definitely not a multi-task book for someone with ADHD, but a deeply thoughtful and data-driven analysis of a roadmap for progressives to build power. Highly recommend

Interesting. Bias

Forgot to mention anything about how racist Joe Binden is and his contributions to keep blacks separated. He even was caught on a hot mic saying how effed it was that Obama won presidency.

Great content

After the eye opening array and the break down of what democracy looks like . Then the pathway of segregationist
agenda for an all white society government and dictatorship. One part I read and it broke down Prince William County in Virginia. That chapter was more of a history lesson than a good story line.
Awesome work Steve Phillips ✔️🤓

A sobering perspective on current events

This is a keen analysis of history and its impact on the current state of US politics and justice movements. Phillips not only draws a direct line between the post Civil War lost cause movement and the rise of Trump-branded authoritarianism, he offers a playbook to defeat it.

A hopeful text to the end of the civil war…

…. Just a few more funerals and a great deal of organizing!!! Phillips superb way out of this alive is a must read for anyone engaged or trying to engage in creating a multinational decent democracy.