Wealth and democracy a political history of the American rich /
"For more than thirty years, Kevin Phillips' insight into American politics and economics has helped to make history as well as record it. Now he turns his attention to the United States' history of great wealth and power, a sweeping cavalcade from the American Revolution to what he c...
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New York :
Broadway Books,
2002.
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Edition: | 1st ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- pt. 1. The great waves of American wealth
- 1. The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries : from privateersmen to robber barons
- 2. Serious money : the three twentieth-century wealth explosions
- 3. Millennial plutographics : American fortunes and misfortunes at the turn of the century
- pt. 2. The origins, evolutions, and engines of wealth : government, global leadership, and technology
- 4. The world is our oyster : the transformation of leading world economic powers
- 5. Friends in high places : government, political influence, and wealth
- 6. Technology and the uncertain foundations of Anglo-American wealth
- pt. 3. Wealth and democracy : the rhythm of politics and confrontation
- 7. Wealth and politics in the United States
- 8. Wealth, money-culture ethics, and corruption
- 9. The cup always runneth over : greed, speculative bubbles, and reform
- 10. Great economic power decline and the politics of resentment
- pt. 4. Thinking ahead
- Afterword : wealth and democracy : the United States and the new century.