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In Pursuit of Privilege - A History of New York City's Upper Class and the Making of a Metropolis (Hardcover)
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In Pursuit of Privilege - A History of New York City's Upper Class and the Making of a Metropolis (Hardcover)
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A history that extends from the 1750s to the present, In Pursuit of
Privilege recounts upper-class New Yorkers' struggle to create a
distinct world guarded against outsiders, even as economic growth
and democratic opportunity enabled aspirants to gain entrance.
Despite their efforts, New York City's upper class has been drawn
into the larger story of the city both through class conflict and
through their role in building New York's cultural and economic
foundations. In Pursuit of Privilege describes the famous and
infamous characters and events at the center of this extraordinary
history, from the elite families and wealthy tycoons of the
eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to the Wall Street executives
of today. From the start, upper-class New Yorkers have been open
and aggressive in their behavior, keen on attaining prestige,
power, and wealth. Clifton Hood sharpens this characterization by
merging a history of the New York economy in the eighteenth century
with the story of Wall Street's emergence as an international
financial center in the late nineteenth and early twentieth
centuries, as well as the dominance of New York's financial and
service sectors in the 1980s. Bringing together several decades of
upheaval and change, he shows that New York's upper class did not
rise exclusively from the Gilded Age but rather from a relentless
pursuit of privilege, affecting not just the urban elite but the
city's entire cultural, economic, and political fabric.
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