The Revolt Against the Masses : : how Liberalism has Undermined the Middle Class
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Includes index.
Introduction -- Progenitors : betrayal and the birth of modern liberalism -- Randolph Bourne writing novels about main street -- Giants in decline -- Trials -- The red decade -- The passing glory of the vital center -- How the highbrows killed culture and paved the path to the 1960s -- Not a new left but a new class -- From Jim Crow to Crow Jim -- McGovernized -- Progressives against progress : the rise of gentry liberalism -- The "philosophical crisis of American liberalism" -- The Clinton interregnum -- Gentry liberals and public sector unions to the fore -- "What are our convictions -- Obama versus main street -- Acknowledgements -- Appendix: John Stuart Mill and the clerisy.
Discusses the history of modern American liberalism and how its roots were formed by a new class of politically self-conscious intellectuals in the 1920s who were trying to create a hierarchical society that despised the middle class.
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PUBLISHED
New York : Encounter Books, 2013.
Year Published: 2013
Description: xii, 225 p. ; 24 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781594036989
1594036985
SUBJECTS
Middle class -- History -- 20th century.
Liberalism -- History -- 20th century.
United States -- Politics and government -- 20th century.