03540nam 22007214a 450 991081442500332120200520144314.00-674-26359-60-674-03719-710.4159/9780674037199(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 a history of wealth and power in a democracy /edited by Steve Fraser & Gary Gerstle1st ed.Cambridge, 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.History of wealth and power in a democracyElite (Social sciences)United StatesHistorySocial classesPolitical aspectsUnited StatesHistoryPower (Social sciences)United StatesHistoryDemocracyUnited StatesElite (Social sciences)History.Social classesPolitical aspectsHistory.Power (Social sciences)History.Democracy305.5/2/0973Fraser Steve1945-525193Gerstle Gary1954-729568MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910814425003321Ruling America4099487UNINA