John Adams and the Fear of American Oligarchy by Luke Mayville
English | October 11th, 2016 | ISBN: 069117153X | 225 Pages | EPUB | 3.40 MB
Long before "the one percent" became a protest slogan, American founding father John Adams feared the power of a class he called simply “the few”—the wellborn, the beautiful, and especially the rich. In John Adams and the Fear of American Oligarchy, Luke Mayville presents the first extended exploration of Adams's preoccupation with a problem that has a renewed urgency today: the way in which inequality threatens to corrode democracy and empower a small elite.