Ruling America
A History of Wealth and Power in a Democracy
Published on 1. July 2009
384 pages
978-0-674-03719-9 (ISBN)
Description
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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Edition
Digital original
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge, MA; London
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
Edition type
Digital original
ISBN-13
978-0-674-03719-9 (9780674037199)
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04/2005
Harvard University Press
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Persons
Steve Fraser is a writer and historian living in New York. Gary Gerstle is Professor of History, University of Maryland.
Content
Introduction I Steve Fraser and Gary Gerstle 1 The Dilemmas of Ruling Elites in Revolutionary America 27 GaryJ. Kornblith andJohn M. Murrin 2 The "Slave Power" in the United States, 1783-1865 64 Adam Rothman 3 Merchants and Manufacturers in the Antebellum North 92 Sven Beckert 4 Gilded Age Gospels 123 David Nasaw 5 The Abortive Rule of Big Money 149 Alan Dawley 6 The Managerial Revitalization of the Rich I81 Jackson Lears 7 The Foreign Policy Establishment 215 Godfrey Hodgson 8 Conservative Elites and the Counterrevolution against the New Deal 250 Michael Lind Coda: Democracy in America 286 Steve Fraser and Gary Gerstle Notes 295 Acknowledgments 349 Contributors 351 Index 355
