Ruling America

A History of Wealth and Power in a Democracy

Edited by Steve Fraser

Edited by Gary Gerstle

    Introduction
    Steve Fraser and Gary Gerstle

    1. The Dilemmas of Ruling Elites in Revolutionary America
    Gary J. Kornblith and John M. Murrin

    2. The "Slave Power" in the United States, 1783-1865
    Adam Rothman

    3. Merchants and Manufacturers in the Antebellum North
    Sven Beckert

    4. Gilded Age Gospels
    David Nasaw

    5. The Abortive Rule of Big Money
    Alan Dawley

    6. The Managerial Revitalization of the Rich
    Jackson Lears

    7. The Foreign Policy Establishment
    Godfrey Hodgson

    8. Conservative Elites and the Counterrevolution against the New Deal
    Michael Lind

    Coda: Democracy in America
    Steve Fraser and Gary Gerstle

    Notes

    Acknowledgments

    Contributors

    Index

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Steve Fraser is a writer and historian living in New York.

Gary Gerstle is Professor of History, University of Maryland.