Ruling America : : A History of Wealth and Power in a Democracy / / ed. by Gary Gerstle, Steve Fraser.
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 noti...
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Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2009] ©2005 |
Year of Publication: | 2009 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (384 p.) |
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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