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The End of the Experiment The Rise of Cultural Elites and the Decline of America's Civic Culture

258 Pages

by Routledge

258 Pages

by Routledge

258 Pages

by Routledge

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The End of the Experiment ties together Stanley Rothman's theory of post-industrialism and his four decades of research on American politics and society. Rothman discusses the rise and fall of the New Left, the sixties' impact on America's cultural elites, and the emergence of new post-industrial humanistic values. The first part of this book explains how cultural shifts in post-industrial... Read more

Foreword by Robert Maranto

Preface by Matthew Woessner

Acknowledgments by Althea Nagai

Part I: The Unraveling of Liberal Capitalism

1 Post-Industrial America

2 A Changing America

3 Post-Calvinist Society and the Rise of the Modern Intellectual

4 The Communications Revolution and American Society

Part II: New Strategic Elites

5 Elites in Conflict: The Theory (with Althea Nagai)

6 Elites in Conflict: The Findings (with Althea Nagai)

7 Personality, Occupation, and Social Change
(with Althea Nagai)

8 Afterword by Althea Nagai

Part III: Rothman's Impact

9 Stanley Rothman: Scholar and Academic Citizen
by Stephen H. Balch

10 The New Left and Political Intolerance
by April Kelly-Woessner

11 "People Are More Important Than Ideas": The Achievement of Stanley Rothman
by David J. Rothman

Bibliography

List of Contributors

Index