The age of acquiescence

By Steve Fraser

Subjects: BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Corporate Finance, Political science, Politics and government, Power (Social sciences), BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Business Ethics, Psychology, history, Social conflict, Income distribution, Power (social sciences), Income distribution, united states, Elite (Social sciences), Acquiescence (Psychology), Elite (social sciences), Social psychology, New York Times reviewed, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Finance, Protest movements, History, United states, politics and government, 20th century

Description: "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? This book 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." -- Provided by publisher.