Ruling America: A History of Wealth and Power in a Democracy PDF
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Ruling America RULING AMERICA A History of Wealth and Power in a Democracy 4 Edited by Steve Fraser & Gary Gerstle HarvardUniversityPress Cambridge,Massachusetts London,England 2005 Copyright©2005bythePresidentandFellowsofHarvardCollege Allrightsreserved PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData RulingAmerica:ahistoryofwealthandpowerinademocracy/ editedbySteveFraserandGaryGerstle. p.cm. Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. ISBN0-674-01695-5(cloth:alk.paper)—ISBN0-674-01747-1(paper:alk.paper) 1.Elite(Socialsciences)—UnitedStates—History. 2.Socialclasses—Politicalaspects—UnitedStates—History. 3.Power(Socialsciences)—UnitedStates—History. 4.Democracy—UnitedStates. I.Fraser,Steve,1945– II.Gerstle,Gary,1954– HN90.E4R852005 305.5′2′0973—dc22 2004059769 ForEmmaandSam Contents Introduction 1 SteveFraserandGaryGerstle 1 The Dilemmas of Ruling Elites in Revolutionary America 27 GaryJ.KornblithandJohnM.Murrin 2 The “Slave Power” in the United States, 1783–1865 64 AdamRothman 3 Merchants and Manufacturers in the Antebellum North 92 SvenBeckert 4 Gilded Age Gospels 123 DavidNasaw 5 The Abortive Rule of Big Money 149 AlanDawley 6 The Managerial Revitalization of the Rich 181 JacksonLears 7 The Foreign Policy Establishment 215 GodfreyHodgson 8 Conservative Elites and the Counterrevolution against the New Deal 250 MichaelLind viii Contents 0 Coda: Democracy in America 286 SteveFraserandGaryGerstle Notes 295 Acknowledgments 349 Contributors 351 Index 355 Ruling America
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