TY  - BOOK
AU  - Fraser,Steve
AU  - Gerstle,Gary
TI  - Ruling America: A History of Wealth and Power in a Democracy
SN  - 9780674037199
AV  - HN90 
U1  - 305.5/2/0973 
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Harvard University Press
KW  - Elite (Social sciences)-United States-History
KW  - Social classes-Political aspects-United States-History
KW  - Power (Social sciences)-United States-History
KW  - Democracy-United States
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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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