Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction / Fraser, Steve / Gerstle, Gary -- 1. The Dilemmas of Ruling Elites in Revolutionary America / Kornblith, Gary J. / Murrin, John M. -- 2. The "Slave Power" in the United States, 1783-1865 / Rothman, Adam -- 3. Merchants and Manufacturers in the Antebellum North / Beckert, Sven -- 4. Gilded Age Gospels / Nasaw, David -- 5. The Abortive Rule of Big Money / Dawley, Alan -- 6. The Managerial Revitalization of the Rich / Lears, Jackson -- 7. The Foreign Policy Establishment / Hodgson, Godfrey -- 8. Conservative Elites and the Counterrevolution against the New Deal / Lind, Michael -- Coda: Democracy in America / Fraser, Steve / Gerstle, Gary -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Index |