Ruling America A History of Wealth and Power in a Democracy

Name: Ruling America A History of Wealth and Power in a Democracy
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ISBN: 9780674017474

ISBN-10: 0674017471

ISBN-13: 9780674017474

Edition: 2005

Authors: Steve Fraser, Gary Gerstle

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Ruling America 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. They explore how elites came into existence, how they established their dominance over public affairs, and how their rule came to an end. The contributors analyze the elite coalition that led the…

Book details

List price: $33.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 4/15/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.012
Language: English

Steve Fraser is a writer and historian living in New York.

Gary Gerstle is Professor of History, University of Maryland.



Introduction




The Dilemmas of Ruling Elites in Revolutionary America




The "Slave Power" in the United States, 1783-1865




Merchants and Manufacturers in the Antebellum North




Gilded Age Gospels




The Abortive Rule of Big Money




The Managerial Revitalization of the




The Foreign Policy Establishment




Conservative Elites and the Counterrevolution against the New Deal Michael Lind Coda: Democracy in America



Notes


Acknowledgments


Contributors


Index