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Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
292 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Analyzes scandals in high-profile institutions, from Wall Street and the Catholic Church to Major League Baseball, while evaluating how an elite American meritocracy rose throughout the past half-century before succumbing to corruption and failure.
Author
Language
English
Description
Debutante cotillions. Million-dollar homes. Summers in Martha's Vineyard. Membership in the Links, Jack & Jill, Deltas, Boule, and AKAs. An obsession with the right schools, families, social clubs, and skin complexion. This is the world of the black upper class and the focus of the first book written about the black elite by a member of this hard-to-penetrate group. Author and TV commentator Lawrence Otis Graham, one of the nation's most prominent...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The new American elites [are] a group whose power and wealth has grown beyond imagination, even as the rest of the country has withered. The people who run America now barely interact with it. They fly on their own planes, ski on their own mountains, watch sporting events far from the stands in sky boxes. ... 'They view America the way a private equity firm sizes up an aging conglomerate,' Carlson writes, 'as something outdated they can profit from....
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
9 CDs (11 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Radio personality Laura Ingraham is fed up with cultural elites on both coasts telling us how to run our lives. The American people are fed up with moral relativism, politicized education, open borders, fiscal excess, and a feckless foreign policy--to name a few. Ingraham calls on her millions of fans from red-state America to send a loud and clear message to the liberal elites: You're fired! It's our turn to run our lives again.
Author
Publisher
Center Street
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 242 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Journalist Matt Lewis exposes the ludicrous nature of money in politics and offers readers a better path forward for keeping their elected leaders accountable to the people they are supposed to be representing.
20) The age of acquiescence: the life and death of American resistance to organized wealth and power
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 470 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
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? THE AGE OF ACQUIESCENCE...
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