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With this challenging work, Christopher Lasch makes an accessible critique of what is wrong with the beliefs and beliefs of America's professional and managerial elites. The distinguished historian argues that democracy today is threatened not by the public, as Jose Ortega y Gasset (The Revolt of the People) had said, but by the elites. These elites - mobile and increasingly global in perspective - refuse to accept limits or ties to land and place. Because they isolate themselves in their systems and enclaves, they reject the middle school, divide the nation, and betray the thought of a democracy for many America's citizens. That is Lasch's clarion call for a go back to the virtues of community, responsibility, and faith.
