The revolt against the masses, how liberalism has undermined the middle class, Fred Siegel
Type
Label
The revolt against the masses, how liberalism has undermined the middle class, Fred Siegel
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
The revolt against the masses
Oclc number
831150459
Responsibility statement
Fred Siegel
Sub title
how liberalism has undermined the middle class
Summary
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
Table Of Contents
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