Ruling America

Informationen zum Autor Steve Fraser is a writer and historian living in New York. Gary Gerstle is Paul Mellon Professor of American History, Cambridge University. Klappentext This book 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? Zusammenfassung This book 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?

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• Authors: , Steve Fraser, Gary Gerstle
• Assisted by: Steve Fraser (Editor), Gary Gerstle (Editor)
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2005
• EAN: 9780674017474
• ISBN: 978-0-674-01747-4
• No. of pages: 384
• Subject: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs