Dilemmas of ruling elites in revolutionary America / Gary J. Kornblith and John M. Murrin -- "Slave power" in the United States, 1783-1865 / Adam Rothman -- Merchants and manufacturers in the antebellum North / Sven Beckert -- Gilded Age gospels / David Nasaw -- Abortive rule of big money / Alan Dawley -- Managerial revitalization of the rich / Jackson Lears -- Foreign policy establishment / Godfrey Hodgson -- Conservative elites and the counterrevolution against the New Deal / Michael Lind -- Coda : democracy in America / Steve Fraser and Gary Gerstle.