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Ruling America : A History of Wealth and Power in a Democracy.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2005Copyright date: ©2005Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (379 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780674037199
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Ruling AmericaDDC classification:
  • 305.5/2/0973
LOC classification:
  • HN90
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- 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.
Summary: 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?.
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Intro -- 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.

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?.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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