03529nam 22007094a 450 991045495200332120200520144314.00-674-03719-710.4159/9780674037199(CKB)1000000000786845(EBL)3300238(OCoLC)923109786(MiAaPQ)EBC3300238(DE-B1597)457621(OCoLC)1013937678(OCoLC)1029818218(OCoLC)1032684366(OCoLC)1037967380(OCoLC)1041976811(OCoLC)1046602860(OCoLC)1047005017(OCoLC)434595715(OCoLC)979746339(DE-B1597)9780674037199(Au-PeEL)EBL3300238(CaPaEBR)ebr10314247(EXLCZ)99100000000078684520040929d2005 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierRuling America[electronic resource] a history of wealth and power in a democracy /edited by Steve Fraser & Gary GerstleCambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press20051 online resource (384 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-674-01695-5 0-674-01747-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 -- IndexThis 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.Elite (Social sciences)United StatesHistorySocial classesPolitical aspectsUnited StatesHistoryPower (Social sciences)United StatesHistoryDemocracyUnited StatesElectronic books.Elite (Social sciences)History.Social classesPolitical aspectsHistory.Power (Social sciences)History.Democracy305.5/2/0973Gerstle Gary, 729568Fraser Steve1945-525193Gerstle Gary1954-729568MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910454952003321Ruling America2454915UNINA