The revolt against the masses
Subtitle: how liberalism has undermined the middle class
By: Fred Siegel
Edition: First American edition.
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 225
ISBN-13: 9781594036989
Subjects: Politics and government; Middle class; Liberalism; History
Description: Discusses the history of modern American liberalism and how its roots were formed by a new class of politically self-conscious intellectuals in the 1920s who were trying to create a hierarchical society that despised the middle class.
Notes: Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Progenitors : betrayal and the birth of modern liberalism; title: Randolph Bourne writing novels about main street; title: Giants in decline; title: Trials; title: The red decade; title: The passing glory of the vital center; title: How the highbrows killed culture and paved the path to the 1960s; title: Not a new left but a new class; title: From Jim Crow to Crow Jim; title: McGovernized; title: Progressives against progress : the rise of gentry liberalism; title: The "philosophical crisis of American liberalism"; title: The Clinton interregnum; title: Gentry liberals and public sector unions to the fore; title: "What are our convictions; title: Obama versus main street; title: Acknowledgements; title: Appendix: John Stuart Mill and the clerisy.