title: Death of a Nation: Plantation Politics and the Making of the Democratic Party
author:  Dinesh D'Souza 
description: DINESH D'SOUZA has had a prominent career as a writer, scholar, public intellectual, and filmmaker. Born in India, DSOUZA came to the U.S. as an exchange student at the age of 17 and graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Dartmouth College. The author of many bestselling books<i>Illiberal Education, Obamas America, America</i> and <i>The Big Lie</i>he is also the creator of three of the top ten highest-grossing political documentaries ever made.
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  Death of a Nation
  
  
  Plantation Politics and the Making of the Democratic Party
  
  
  Dinesh D’Souza
  
  
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