Ruling America [[electronic resource] ] : a history of wealth and power in a democracy / / edited by Steve Fraser & Gary Gerstle

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910778188303321
• Autore: Gerstle Gary
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge, Mass., : Harvard University Press, 2005
• ISBN: 0-674-26359-6; 0-674-03719-7
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (384 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): FraserSteve <1945->; GerstleGary <1954->
• Disciplina: 305.5/2/0973
• Soggetti: Elite (Social sciences) - United States - History; Social classes - Political aspects - United States - History; Power (Social sciences) - United States - History; Democracy - United States
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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? 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.