A01=David A. Horowitz
AFL CIO Leader
America's Political Class
Author_David A. Horowitz
Brain Trusters
Brains Trust
Capital Punishment
Category=JBSA
Category=JP
Category=NHK
Category=NHTB
CCC's Separation
CCC’s Separation
century's
Century's Great Culture War
CIO
College Professor
culture
Deal Official
eq_bestseller
eq_history
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
eq_society-politics
exempt
Foreign Broadcast Intelligence Service
foundations
great
Guardian Class
guardians
Hollywood Ten
HUAC Hearing
intellectual history
intellectuals
knowledge professionals
Leopold Loeb Case
liberalism critique
Louis Budenz
NRPB
Philadelphia Plan
policy elites
post-World War II Babyboomers
Public Administration
public policy analysis
social
Social Guardians
social intervention policy
Social Interventionists
tax
Tax Exempt Foundations
twentieth century American governance
war
World War Ii Era
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9780415946919
- Weight: 560g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 14 Aug 2003
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
While the clash between what has been called the modern and undeveloped worlds has led to America's military involvement in the Middle East and other places, few people realize the tension between the modern and the traditional within the United States. Beginning in the 1920's, professional intellectuals and academics began influencing the nation's public policy on matters as diverse as education, economics, and public health. In this thoughtful work, David A. Horowitz analyzes the tension between the so-called New Class of knowledge professionals and their critics, who accused them of being out of touch with the common sense of everyday people, strangers to the American Way, even Communists. America's Political Class Under Fire is organized over nine periods of 20th-century history, providing a window into everything from the Scopes evolution trial and McCarthyism to affirmative action and the Clinton health care fiasco. Along the way, the book explores the New Left, populist conservatism, and the mid-90's reaction to political liberalism, which saw Newt Gingrich rise to the top post in the House of Representatives. In telling these stories, Horowitz seeks to encourage a more balanced and fair-minded assessment of the consequences of expertise and applied intellect to democratic existence in the United States.
David A. Horowitz is Professor of History at Portland State University. He is the co-author of Beyond Left andRight: Insurgency and the Establishment (1997).
