The Age of Acquiescence: The Life and Death of American Resistance to Organized Wealth and Power
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| Rating | : | 4.93 (858 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0316185434 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 480 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-12-13 |
| Language | : | English |
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Effervescent and razorsharp, THE AGE OF ACQUIESCENCE will be one of the most provocative and talked-about books of the year.. 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. But over the last half-century that political will and cultural imagination have vanished. 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. Why?THE AGE OF ACQUIESCENCE seeks to solve that mystery. 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
"I liked the book but if I can make one criticism" according to Emily M Kline. This book has a really important message in my opinionhaving been born into FDRs world and then lived through the changes that came with Reagan and after him I could really relate to the points made in how our two gilded eras differ and why. I liked the book but if I can make on. Great book to understand why the American worker is suffering. A densely written informational book about the relationship between the working class and the wealthy capitalists that for the most part control their economic fate. The book covers the period from the end of the Civil War to the present. The principal thesis indicated in the ti. Scary and a bit depressing — will it wake people up? S. J. Snyder Age of AcquiescenceFirst, Steve Fraser has a word for us to learn: “Precariat.” You can probably see the word from which this portmanteau derives, in turn riffing on “proletariat.” Yes, we are the class of the precarious.So, why didn’t more American
He has written for the online site Tomdispatch, and his work has appeared on the Huffington Post, Salon, Truthout, and Alternet, among others. . His work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, The Nation, The American Prospect, Raritan, and
Fraser makes that all too clear in a book that deserves to spark a national conversation."Michael Causey, Washington Independent Review of Books"No one writing history today does it with the power, passion, insight, and rigor of Steve Fraser. It's going to take decades to get out of it. "Provocative.A perceptive reading of the current zeitgeist."Michael Kazin, Slate"Fraser offers a sweeping, forcefully argued comparison between, on the one hand, the economy, ideology, and politics of the first Gilded Age and, on the other, the contemporary political scene."Kim Phillips-Fein, Atlantic "Sweeping and ambitious.Fraser weaves together a rich tapestry of history, statistics and barely suppressed outrage."Maura Casey, Washington Post"Fascinating.As Fraser forcefully shows, during the first Gilded Age American elites were threatened with more than embarrassing statistics."Nao