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04767aam a22007698i 4500 001 1494C15A970411E497CBD0ACDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20150108010035 008 140718s2015 nyu 000 0 eng 010 $a 2014020466 020 $a 0316185434 (hardback) 020 $a 9780316185431 (hardback) 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d YDXCP $d BTCTA $d BDX $d OCLCO $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a E169.Z8 $b F73 2015 082 00 $a 973.91 $2 23 084 $a BUS027000 $a BUS017000 $a BUS027000 $2 bisacsh 100 1 $a Fraser, Steve, $d 1945- 245 14 $a The age of acquiescence : $b the life and death of American resistance to organized wealth and power / $c Steve Fraser. 263 $a 1502 264 1 $a New York : $b Little, Brown and Company, $c 2015. 300 $a pages cm 520 $a "A groundbreaking investigation of how and why, from the 18th century to the present day, American resistance to our ruling elites has vanished. From the American Revolution through the Civil Rights movement, Americans have long mobilized against political, social, and economic privilege. Hierarchies based on inheritance, wealth, and political preferment were treated as obnoxious and a threat to democracy. Mass movements envisioned a new world supplanting dog-eat-dog capitalism. But over the last half-century that political will and cultural imagination have vanished. Why? THE AGE OF ACQUIESCENCE seeks to solve that mystery. Steve Fraser's account of national transformation brilliantly examines the rise of American capitalism, the visionary attempts to protect the democratic commonwealth, and the great surrender to today's delusional fables of freedom and the politics of fear. Effervescent and razorsharp, THE AGE OF ACQUIESCENCE will be one of the most provocative and talked-about books of the year. "-- $c Provided by publisher. 520 $a "From the American Revolution through the Civil Rights movement, Americans have long mobilized against political, social, and economic privilege. Hierarchies based on inheritance, wealth, and political preferment were treated as obnoxious and a threat to democracy. Mass movements envisioned a new world supplanting dog-eat-dog capitalism. But over the last half-century that political will and cultural imagination have vanished. Why? THE AGE OF ACQUIESCENCE seeks to solve that mystery. Steve Fraser's account of national transformation brilliantly examines the rise of American capitalism, the visionary attempts to protect the democratic commonwealth, and the great surrender to today's delusional fables of freedom and the politics of fear. Effervescent and razorsharp, THE AGE OF ACQUIESCENCE will be one of the most provocative and talked-about books of the year"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 7 $a BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Business Ethics. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Corporate Finance. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Finance. $2 bisacsh 650 0 $a Social conflict $z United States $x History. 650 0 $a Protest movements $z United States $x History. 650 0 $a Income distribution $z United States $x History. 650 0 $a Elite (Social sciences) $z United States $x History. 650 0 $a Power (Social sciences) $z United States $x History. 650 0 $a Acquiescence (Psychology) $x History. 650 0 $a Social psychology $z United States $x History. 651 0 $a United States $x Politics and government $y 1945- 941 $a 29 952 $l ALPE516 $d 20240417013153.0 952 $l GOPG641 $d 20240409022620.0 952 $l SMPE094 $d 20240104013732.0 952 $l YEPF572 $d 20231012011521.0 952 $l KAPF566 $d 20230331012528.0 952 $l GMPD771 $d 20230210015225.0 952 $l LAPH975 $d 20200528055837.0 952 $l TYPH572 $d 20200110061453.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191214021352.0 952 $l AAPF906 $d 20190717025729.0 952 $l XXPH787 $d 20181107050210.0 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20181006083219.0 952 $l ETPD745 $d 20180808031656.0 952 $l MMPE553 $d 20180719042850.0 952 $l NYPE343 $d 20170523015416.0 952 $l WHPE115 $d 20161213011244.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20160826110047.0 952 $l UQAX771 $d 20160604011341.0 952 $l CBPF522 $d 20160323015955.0 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20160105012042.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20150926033002.0 952 $l UXAX826 $d 20150728012150.0 952 $l OOAX232 $d 20150624010429.0 952 $l PNAX964 $d 20150521014917.0 952 $l TCPG826 $d 20150515012306.0 952 $l PRAX771 $d 20150502024151.0 952 $l S1PD771 $d 20150404032717.0 952 $l XBPE737 $d 20150303030115.0 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20150303011255.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=1494C15A970411E497CBD0ACDAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search