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- Condition
- Book Title
- Twilight of the Elites: America After Meritocracy
- ISBN
- 9780307720467
- Publication Year
- 2013
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- Publication Name
- Twilight of the Elites: America after Meritocracy
- Item Height
- 203 mm
- Publisher
- Broadway Books (A Division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc)
- Subject
- Government
- Item Weight
- 222 g
- Item Width
- 131 mm
- Number of Pages
- 304 Pages
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A powerful and original argument that traces the roots of our present crisis of authority to an unlikely source: the meritocracy. Over the past decade, Americans watched in bafflement and rage as one institution after another - from Wall Street to Congress, the Catholic Church to corporate America, even Major League Baseball - imploded under the weight of corruption and incompetence. In the wake of the Fail Decade, Americans have historically low levels of trust in their institutions; the social contract between ordinary citizens and elites lies in tatters. How did we get here? With Twilight of the Elites, Christopher Hayes offers a radically novel answer. Since the 1960s, as the meritocracy elevated a more diverse group of men and women into power, they learned to embrace the accelerating inequality that had placed them near the very top. Their ascension heightened social distance and spawned a new American elite--one more prone to failure and corruption than any that came before it. Mixing deft political analysis, timely social commentary, and deep historical understanding, Twilight of the Elites describes how the society we have come to inhabit - utterly forgiving at the top and relentlessly punitive at the bottom - produces leaders who are out of touch with the people they have been trusted to govern. Hayes argues that the public's failure to trust the federal government, corporate America, and the media has led to a crisis of authority that threatens to engulf not just our politics but our day-to-day lives. Upending well-worn ideological and partisan categories, Hayes entirely reorients our perspective on our times. Twilight of the Elites is the defining work of social criticism for the post-bailout age.
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Publisher
Broadway Books (A Division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc)
ISBN-13
9780307720467
eBay Product ID (ePID)
176599164
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
304 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Twilight of the Elites: America after Meritocracy
Publication Year
2013
Subject
Government
Type
Textbook
Format
Paperback
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Item Height
203 mm
Item Weight
222 g
Item Width
131 mm
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United States
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- e***b (4667)- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchaseSo, conflicted with this transaction.... Book was NOT in "Good" condition as listed; it was damaged in transit due to being sent in just a plastic bag, it was dirty, an ex-library book which wasn't mentioned, the dustjacket had stuck to the boards & there was an insect cocoon inside the cover. BUT - the book was perfectly readable if that's all you need, & the seller was very swift to refund me the full amount without even requesting the book to be returned, so, overall experience positive. ThnxMy Life As I See It - hardcover, Dionne Warwick, 1439171343 (#166661208722)
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- e***b (4667)- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchaseSo, conflicted with this transaction.... Book was NOT in "Good" condition as listed; it was damaged in transit due to being sent in just a plastic bag, it was dirty, an ex-library book which wasn't mentioned, the dustjacket had stuck to the boards & there was an insect cocoon inside the cover. BUT - the book was perfectly readable if that's all you need, & the seller was very swift to refund me the full amount without even requesting the book to be returned, so, overall experience positive. ThnxMy Life As I See It - hardcover, Dionne Warwick, 1439171343 (#166661208722)
- o***5 (181)- Feedback left by buyer.Past monthVerified purchaseExcellent seller - book's condition as described, order was processed and dispatched promptly with full tracking provided throughout including an allocated two-hour time slot for delivery. Item was delivered on time, inside the time slot, by Evri.
- n***r (574)- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchaseItem in good condition and as described. It was dispatched on time, but unfortunately the delivery company Evri were dreadful and took 8 days finally to deliver the product having sent it out for delivery on no fewer than four occasions and then sent a message saying “we weren’t able to deliver your item”. This was not due to any problem at our end and there was always somebody to receive the item each time.