Twilight Of The Elites : America After Meritocracy Hardcover English by Christopher Hayes - 6-Dec-12
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| Publisher | Random House USA Inc |
| ISBN 13 | 9780307720450 |
| ISBN 10 | 307720454 |
| Book Subtitle | America After Meritocracy |
| Book Description | 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. |
| Editorial Review | "In "Twilight 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 of "Here Comes Everybody" and "Cognitive Surplus" |
| About the Author | Christopher Hayes is Editor at Large of "The Nation" and host of "Up w/ Chris Hayes" on MSNBC. From 2010 to 2011, he was a fellow at Harvard University's Edmond J Safra Foundation Center for Ethics. His essays, articles, and reviews have appeared in "The New York Times Magazine," "Time," "The American Prospect," "The New Republic," "The Washington Monthly," and "The Guardian. "He lives in Brooklyn with his wife Kate and daughter Ryan. |
| Language | English |
| Author | Christopher Hayes |
| Publication Date | 6-Dec-12 |
| Number of Pages | 292 |
Twilight Of The Elites : America After Meritocracy Hardcover English by Christopher Hayes - 6-Dec-12
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