Twilight of the Elites: America After Meritocracy
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品牌: Christopher Hayes
基本信息出版社:Crown (2012年6月12日)精装:304页正文语种:英语ISBN:0307720454条形码:9780307720450商品重量:558 gASIN:0307720454您想告诉我们您发现了更低的价格?
商品描述内容简介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? WithTwilight 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 Elitesdescribes 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 Elitesis the defining work of social criticism for the post-bailout age.媒体推荐“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 ofPity the Billionaire
“Chris Hayes is a brilliant chronicler of the central crisis of our time – the failure of America's elites. His humane, spirited reporting and analysis capture what millions of Americans already know in their gut – the emperor has no clothes. Yet this is not a book defined by despair or cynicism. Hayes seizes this moment of crisis to offer important and unconventional ideas as to how to reconstruct and reinvent our politics and society. Twilight of the Elitesis a must read book for those, across the political spectrum, who believe there is still time to cure the structural ills of our body politic.” –Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor and publisher,The Nation
“InTwilight of the Elites, Hayes shows us what links the bailout of investment bankers but not mortgage holders, the useless public conversation in the run-up to the Iraq war, and the Catholic Church's harboring of child rapists: our core institutions are no longer self-correcting, and have become committed to protection of insiders at all costs. Read this and prepare to be enraged.” –Clay Shirky, author ofHere Comes EverybodyandCognitive Surplus
"A provocation; a challenge; and a major contribution to the great debate over how the American dream can be restored." –David Frum, contributing editor,DailyBeast/Newsweek
“Chris Hayes is a gift to this republic. The brilliance he shows us each week on MSNBC has now been complemented by this extraordinary book. Beautifully written, and powerfully argued, it will force you to rethink everything you take for granted about ‘merit.’ And it will show us a way to a more perfect nation.”
–Lawrence Lessig, Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership, Harvard Law School and author ofRepublic, Lost
“Chris Hayes has given us the kind of book people don't write any more: a sweeping work of social criticism like Rachel Carson'sSilent Springand Michael Harrington'sThe Other Americathat 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 withTwilight of the Elites—America ignores this prophet at their gravest peril.” –Rick Perlstein, author ofNixonlandandBefore the Storm
