The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy

The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy
Author: Christopher Lasch
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 289
Release: 1996-01-17
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0393313719

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This text challenges American notions of democracy and ambition, culture and civic responsibility, charting a decline in democratic values and debate. It states that this change is due to the "new elites" who, having lost their sense of communitarianism, will not accept ties to nation and to place.


The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy
Language: en
Pages: 289
Authors: Christopher Lasch
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 1996-01-17 - Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

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This text challenges American notions of democracy and ambition, culture and civic responsibility, charting a decline in democratic values and debate. It states
The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy
Language: en
Pages: 289
Authors: Christopher Lasch
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 1996-01-17 - Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

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"[A] passionate, compelling, and disturbing argument that the ills of democracy in the United States today arise from the default of its elites." —John Gray,
The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy
Language: en
Pages: 292
Authors: Christopher Lasch
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 1996-01-17 - Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

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This text challenges American notions of democracy and ambition, culture and civic responsibility, charting a decline in democratic values and debate. It states
The True and Only Heaven: Progress and Its Critics
Language: en
Pages: 594
Authors: Christopher Lasch
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 1991-09-17 - Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

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Traces the anti-progressive, populist tradition of democracy in nineteenth and early twentieth-century movements by artisans and farmers as well as in major thi
The Agony of the American Left
Language: en
Pages: 220
Authors: Christopher Lasch
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-03-20 - Publisher: Knopf

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Five long essays by an American historian, the author of The New Radicalism in America (1965). Under the rubric of "the collapse of mass-based radical movements