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“Twilight of the Elites: America After Meritocracy [Hardcover]” [Book] By Christopher Hayes
Twilight of the Elites: America After Meritocracy
“Chris Hayes has given us the kind of book people don't write any more: a sweeping work of social criticism like Rachel Carson's Silent Spring and Michael Harrington's The Other America that take the failings of an entire society as their subject. Those books brought grand movements of reform in their wake. Would that history repeats itself with Twilight of the Elites—America ignores this prophet at their gravest peril.” – Rick Perlstein, author of Nixonland and Before the Storm
“Here is the story of the ‘fail decade’ and how it made cynicism the inescapable flavor of our times. Along the way Chris Hayes delivers countless penetrating insights as well as passages of brilliant observation. If you want to understand the world you're living in, sooner or later you will have to read this book.” – Thomas Frank, author of Pity the Billionaire
Written by MSNBC host and at large editor for the Nation, Chris Hayes, this newly released book offers a profoundly important theory on the new ruling elite in the US, exemplified by President Obama. A new generation of "the best and the brightest," who were admitted to top colleges and universities after public school and racial and gender quotas were eliminated in the '60s, now rule in DC. But, alas, rising to the top in educational and social status made this group of people isolated from struggling Americans and from citizen input to public policy.
“Chris Hayes has given us the kind of book people don't write any more: a sweeping work of social criticism like Rachel Carson's Silent Spring and Michael Harrington's The Other America that take the failings of an entire society as their subject. Those books brought grand movements of reform in their wake. Would that history repeats itself with Twilight of the Elites—America ignores this prophet at their gravest peril.” – Rick Perlstein, author of Nixonland and Before the Storm
“Here is the story of the ‘fail decade’ and how it made cynicism the inescapable flavor of our times. Along the way Chris Hayes delivers countless penetrating insights as well as passages of brilliant observation. If you want to understand the world you're living in, sooner or later you will have to read this book.” – Thomas Frank, author of Pity the Billionaire
Written by MSNBC host and at large editor for the Nation, Chris Hayes, this newly released book offers a profoundly important theory on the new ruling elite in the US, exemplified by President Obama. A new generation of "the best and the brightest," who were admitted to top colleges and universities after public school and racial and gender quotas were eliminated in the '60s, now rule in DC. But, alas, rising to the top in educational and social status made this group of people isolated from struggling Americans and from citizen input to public policy.
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