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The age of acquiescence : the life and death of American resistance to organized wealth and power

Title
The age of acquiescence : the life and death of American resistance to organized wealth and power / Steve Fraser.
Author
Fraser, Steve, 1945-
Publication
New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2015.

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Description
viii, 470 pages; 25 cm
Summary
  • "A groundbreaking investigation of how and why, from the 18th century to the present day, American resistance to our ruling elites has vanished. From the American Revolution through the Civil Rights movement, Americans have long mobilized against political, social, and economic privilege. Hierarchies based on inheritance, wealth, and political preferment were treated as obnoxious and a threat to democracy. Mass movements envisioned a new world supplanting dog-eat-dog capitalism. But over the last half-century that political will and cultural imagination have vanished. Why? THE AGE OF ACQUIESCENCE seeks to solve that mystery. Steve Fraser's account of national transformation brilliantly examines the rise of American capitalism, the visionary attempts to protect the democratic commonwealth, and the great surrender to today's delusional fables of freedom and the politics of fear. Effervescent and razorsharp, THE AGE OF ACQUIESCENCE will be one of the most provocative and talked-about books of the year. "--
  • "From the American Revolution through the Civil Rights movement, Americans have long mobilized against political, social, and economic privilege. Hierarchies based on inheritance, wealth, and political preferment were treated as obnoxious and a threat to democracy. Mass movements envisioned a new world supplanting dog-eat-dog capitalism. But over the last half-century that political will and cultural imagination have vanished. Why? THE AGE OF ACQUIESCENCE seeks to solve that mystery. Steve Fraser's account of national transformation brilliantly examines the rise of American capitalism, the visionary attempts to protect the democratic commonwealth, and the great surrender to today's delusional fables of freedom and the politics of fear. Effervescent and razorsharp, THE AGE OF ACQUIESCENCE will be one of the most provocative and talked-about books of the year"--
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 427-452) and index.
Call Number
IAG 15-2108
ISBN
  • 9780316185431
  • 0316185434
LCCN
2014020466
OCLC
881140722
Author
Fraser, Steve, 1945- author.
Title
The age of acquiescence : the life and death of American resistance to organized wealth and power / Steve Fraser.
Publisher
New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2015.
Edition
First Edition.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 427-452) and index.
Research Call Number
IAG 15-2108
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