The age of acquiescence : the life and death of American resistance to organized wealth and power
"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 n...
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New York :
Little, Brown and Company,
2015.
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Table of Contents:
- Class warfare in America : the long nineteenth century. Progress ; Progress, poverty, and primitive accumulation ; Premonitions ; The second civil war : in the countryside ; The second civil war : on the industrial frontier ; Myth and history ; The end of socialism
- Desire and fear in the second gilded age. Back to the future : the political economy of auto-cannibalism ; Fables of acquiescence : the businessman as populist hero ; Fables of freedom : brand X ; Wages of freedom : the fable of the free agent ; Journey to nowhere : the eclipse of the labor movement ; Improbable rebels : the folklore of limousine liberalism ; Conclusion : exit by the rear doors.