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"[A] passionate, compelling, and disturbing argument that the ills of democracy in the United States today arise from the default of its elites." ―John Gray, New York Times Book Review (front-page review)

In a front-page review in the Washington Post Book World, John Judis wrote: "Political analysts have been poring over exit polls and precinct-level votes to gauge the meaning of last November's election, but they would probably better employ their time reading the late Christopher Lasch's book." And in the National Review, Robert Bork says The Revolt of the Elites "ranges provocatively [and] insightfully."

Controversy has raged around Lasch's targeted attack on the elites, their loss of moral values, and their abandonment of the middle class and poor, for he sets up the media and educational institutions as a large source of the problem. In this spirited work, Lasch calls out for a return to community, schools that teach history not self-esteem, and a return to morality and even the teachings of religion. He does this in a nonpartisan manner, looking to the lessons of American history, and castigating those in power for the ever-widening gap between the economic classes, which has created a crisis in American society. The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy is riveting social commentary.

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Cultural critic Lasch, who passed away before this book was published, argues that American democracy is withering in the hands of professional and managerial elites who lack a sense of social and civic values.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About the Author

Christopher Lasch (1932–1994), professor of history at the University of Rochester, wrote, among many other works, The True and Only Heaven: Progress and Its Critics and the best-selling Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy.

Paperback: 276 pages
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company; Revised ed. edition (January 17, 1996)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0393313719
ISBN-13: 978-0393313710
Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 0.9 x 8.2 inches
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William H. Panning

A tour de force that helps readers understand their country, and culture and how they evolved

December 6, 2016

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Readers of Chris Hayes' "Twilight of the Elites: America after Meritocracy" may recognize some common themes here. But Lasch presented his far more complete and prescient descriptions of our situation some eighteen years earlier. When I read Hayes' book, some months before Trump's nomination, I immediately recommended to all my liberal friends that they read it. But now, after reading Lasch's even more nuanced critique, I see the work of an incredibly perceptive intellectual whose perceptions and analyses are far more nuanced and comprehensive. This is the kind of work that we once expected the best academics to produce, intended for a broad audience.

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An intelligent, prophetic

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An intelligent, prophetic, incisive book that deeply analyzes current society, not only in the United States but at the global level. I recommend it as an indispensable reading to understand the current situation in the world.

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Startlingly Prescient and Highly Recommended

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Lasch was most active in the late twentieth century yet it would seem he was seeing into the future with this book and his equally (or more) famous book, The Culture of Narcissism. In Revolt of the Elites he posits that the degeneration of Western Democracy has been caused by the abandonment by the wealthy and educated elites of their responsibilities to support culture, education, the building of public facilities, etc. in these societies. The rich and educated in Western Liberal, Capitalist, Democracies have, since the 1970s, increasingly abandoned society, keeping all of their earnings to themselves and have adopted a listless transient existence forgoing any significant commitments to community. This, Lasch tells us, is a new phenomenon; where in the past the elites, the wealthy and the educated gave freely of themselves and their earnings to help bring to their communities the finer benefits of the capitalistic, liberal democratic system of society and governance, now this strata of society gives little, aims to pay as little tax as possible, and does not regard themselves as belonging to any community at all. This, Lasch maintains, is causing the breakdown of the Western Democracies, the United States in particular. Democracy itself is not so much under attack by this phenomenon, but withering away from lack of interest as it were.

In these past couple of years much attention has been paid to the threats to democracy posed by the re-emergence of populism, protectionism, nationalism, authoritarian demagogues, conspiracy theories and fear of immigration. Lasch's book shows how and why these recent forces have encountered little resistance from the already eroded democracies in America and elsewhere.

Highly recommended.

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Extremely illuminating

December 20, 2013

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A book that can change the way you view things. For many it would be a life-changer. Aptly titled. The chapter on how popular rule in the US was subverted in the 20th-century by the "rule of the experts" is eye-opening. The work is on a level with the works of Paul Gottfried and Kevin McDonald.

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A Classic

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A classic of great relevance to the US political landscape in 2016.

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A shameless society is a dead one.

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To be able to project 20 years ahead is a feat.

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Highly suggested.

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Great read for enlightened reactionaries

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Christopher Lasch was a masterful synthesizer of information and sources, with an unshakeable moral center and pragmatic bent. An excellent read to understand some of the sources of spiritual malaise afflicting modern people.

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