"Ruling America" 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. They explore how elites
came into existence, how they established their dominance over
public affairs, and how their rule came to an end. The contributors
analyze the elite coalition that led the Revolution and then
examine the antebellum planters of the South and the merchant
patricians of the North. Later chapters vividly portray the Gilded
Age "robber barons," the great finance capitalists in the age of J.
P. Morgan, and the foreign-policy "Establishment" of the post-World
War II years. The book concludes with a dissection of the
corporate-led counter-revolution against the New Deal
characteristic of the Reagan and Bush era.
Rarely in the last half-century has one book afforded such a
comprehensive look at the ways elite wealth and power have
influenced the American experiment with democracy. At a time when
the distribution of wealth and power has never been more unequal,
"Ruling America" is of urgent contemporary relevance.
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