| Description |
xvi, 293 pages ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
In this bracing collection of provocative essays, Michael Knox Beran examines the false benevolence that characterizes the power classes in contemporary America. Their enlightened pity for their fellow citizens, he charges, conceals an instinct for power rather than compassion. Mr. Beran argues that today's elites have come to rely on a social philosophy that reduces people to a mass of social groups and types, obscures their individual humanity, and makes them easier to manipulate. While they tragically conceive their desire for authority as a form of virtue, the elite classes have set about remaking schools, rewriting the U.S. Constitution, dehumanizing charity, and making war on tradition in the name of a crude form of Social Darwinism. -- Product Description. |
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Elite (Social sciences) -- United States.
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Liberalism -- United States.
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United States -- Social conditions -- 21st century.
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United States -- Politics and government -- 21st century.
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| ISBN |
9781566638746 cloth alkaline paper |
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1566638747 cloth alkaline paper |
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