TY  - BOOK
AU  - Beckert,Sven
AU  - Dawley,Alan
AU  - Fraser,Steve
AU  - Gerstle,Gary
AU  - Hodgson,Godfrey
AU  - Kornblith,Gary J.
AU  - Lears,Jackson
AU  - Lind,Michael
AU  - Murrin,John M.
AU  - Nasaw,David
AU  - Rothman,Adam
TI  - Ruling America: A History of Wealth and Power in a Democracy 
SN  - 9780674037199
AV  - HN90.E4 -- R85 2005eb 
U1  - 305.5/2/0973 
PY  - 2009///]
CY  - Cambridge, MA : 
PB  - Harvard University Press, 
KW  - Democracy
KW  - United States
KW  - Elite (Social sciences)
KW  - History
KW  - Power (Social sciences)
KW  - Social classes
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Introduction --; 1. The Dilemmas of Ruling Elites in Revolutionary America --; 2. The “Slave Power” in the United States, 1783–1865 --; 3. Merchants and Manufacturers in the Antebellum North --; 4. Gilded Age Gospels --; 5. The Abortive Rule of Big Money --; 6. The Managerial Revitalization of the Rich --; 7. The Foreign Policy Establishment --; 8. Conservative Elites and the Counterrevolution against the New Deal --; Coda: Democracy in America --; Notes --; Acknowledgments --; Contributors --; Index; restricted access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674037199
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674037199
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