Ruling America : : A History of Wealth and Power in a Democracy / / ed. by Gary Gerstle, Steve Fraser.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 (Canada)
• MitwirkendeR: Beckert, Sven,; Dawley, Alan,; Fraser, Steve,; Gerstle, Gary,; Hodgson, Godfrey,; Kornblith, Gary J.,; Lears, Jackson,; Lind, Michael,; Murrin, John M.,; Nasaw, David,; Rothman, Adam,
• HerausgeberIn: Fraser, Steve,; Gerstle, Gary,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2009]; ©2005
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (384 p.)

This book offers a panoramic history of our country's ruling elites from the time of the American Revolution to the present. At its heart is the greatest of American paradoxes: How have tiny minorities of the rich and privileged consistently exercised so much power in a nation built on the notion of rule by the people? In a series of thought-provoking essays, leading scholars of American history examine every epoch in which ruling economic elites have shaped our national experience.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. The Dilemmas of Ruling Elites in Revolutionary America -- 2. The “Slave Power” in the United States, 1783–1865 -- 3. Merchants and Manufacturers in the Antebellum North -- 4. Gilded Age Gospels -- 5. The Abortive Rule of Big Money -- 6. The Managerial Revitalization of the Rich -- 7. The Foreign Policy Establishment -- 8. Conservative Elites and the Counterrevolution against the New Deal -- Coda: Democracy in America -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Index