Kim Phillips-Fein

Country of Lords (eBook, ePUB)

Neo-Aristocrats, Social Darwinists, Tech Utopians, and the Long Fight against Equality in America

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A Pulitzer-finalist historian charts a 250-year-old intellectual and political traditionthe conviction that all Americans are NOT created equal.

We think of the United States as a nation committed, at least on paper, to ideals of human equality, under God and/or under the law. But as robust as the notion of the American dream is a longstanding defense of social hierarchies, including vast gulfs between rich and poor.

Drawing on forgotten characters and neglected archives, Kim PhillipsFein tells the story of the executives, intellectuals, and political leaders who have argued that the words of the Declaration of Independencethat all men are created equalare a myth. John Adams, William Graham Sumner, Andrew Carnegie, journalist Lothrop Stoddard, Henry Ford, Harvard psychologist Richard Herrnstein, Peter Thiel, and others represent this counter-tradition of hostility to democratic government. Phillips-Fein explores their ideas, and the aspirations they were reacting to, in order to understand our political life todayin hopes we might imagine a more egalitarian way forward.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Juli 2026
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781324074458
• Artikelnr.: 75739721

Autorenporträt

Kim Phillips-Fein is Robert Gardiner-Kenneth T. Jackson Professor of History at Columbia University. She is the author of Fear City, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and Invisible Hands. She lives in New York City.