TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lasch, Christopher,
TI  - The revolt of the elites: and the betrayal of democracy 
SN  - 0393036995
U1  - 306.0973 20
PY  - 1995///
CY  - New York
PB  - W.W. Norton
KW  - Polarization (Social sciences)
KW  - Democracy
KW  - United States
KW  - Elite (Social sciences)
KW  - Populism
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - 1945-
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 20th century
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-260) and index; 1. Introduction: The Democratic Malaise -- I. The Intensification of Social Divisions. 2. The Revolt of the Elites. 3. Opportunity in the Promised Land: Social Mobility or the Democratization of Competence? 4. Does Democracy Deserve to Survive? 5. Communitarianism or Populism? The Ethic of Compassion and the Ethic of Respect -- II. Democratic Discourse in Decline. 6. Conversation and the Civic Arts. 7. Racial Politics in New York: The Attack on Common Standards. 8. The Common Schools: Horace Mann and the Assault on Imagination. 9. The Lost Art of Argument. 10. Academic Pseudo-radicalism: The Charade of "Subversion" -- III. The Dark Night of the Soul. 11. The Abolition of Shame. 12. Philip Rieff and the Religion of Culture. 13. The Soul of Man under Secularism
ER  -