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Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- ONE A Perennial Problem -- TWO The Goods of Fortune -- THREE Sympathy for the Rich -- FOUR Dignified Democracy -- CONCLUSION American Oligarchy -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
A perennial problem -- The goods of fortune -- Wealth et sympathy -- Dignified democracy -- Conclusion.
Long before "the one percent" became a protest slogan, American founding father John Adams feared the power of a class he called simply "the few"--The wellborn, the beautiful, and especially the rich. In John Adams and the Fear of American Oligarchy, Luke Mayville presents the f…
"Long before 'the one percent' became a protest slogan, American founding father John Adams feared the power of a class he called simply “the few”—the wellborn, the beautiful, and especially the rich. In John Adams and the Fear of American Oligarchy, Luke Mayville presents the f…