Protecting Democracy In the New Gilded Age
The Leonard Lopate Show | Feb 13, 2015
Throughout American history, hierarchies based on inheritance, wealth, and political preferment were often treated as a threat to democracy, despite their persistence to this day. In The Age of Acquiescence: The Life and Death of American Resistance to Organized Wealth and Power, Steve Fraser examines the rise of American capitalism, and the attempts to protect the democratic commonwealth.
