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Title Ruling America : a history of wealth and power in a democracy / edited by Steve Fraser & Gary Gerstle.

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Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2005.

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Location	Call No.	OPAC Message	Status
Axe 3rd Floor Stacks	305.5209 R862 2005	---	Available

Description	viii, 368 p. ; 23 cm.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	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.
Subject	Elite (Social sciences) -- United States -- History.
	Social classes -- Political aspects -- United States -- History.
	Power (Social sciences) -- United States -- History.
Added Author	Fraser, Steve, 1945-
	Gerstle, Gary, 1954-
Added Title	History of wealth and power in a democracy
ISBN	0674016955 (cloth : alk. paper)
	9780674016958 (cloth : alk. paper)
	0674017471 (paper : alk. paper)
	9780674017474 (paper : alk. paper)
Standard No.	NLGGC 269003339