Aristocracy, American style: class privilege and the persistence of elite power

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Drawing on public policy, popular culture, and political rhetoric, Isenberg demonstrates how American elites have long borrowed aristocratic forms while media infrastructures keep the people awed by scandal and celebrity churn. Aristocracy, American Style reframes inequality as the predictable outcome of an old, distinctly American regime, and shows what it costs a republic to mistake prestige for merit"--

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