Ruling America: a history of wealth and power in a democracy

The dilemmas of ruling elites in revolutionary America / Gary J. Kornblith and John M. Murrin

The "slave power" in the United States, 1783-1865 / Adam Rothman

Merchants and manufacturers in the antebellum North / Sven Beckert

Gilded Age gospels / David Nasaw

The abortive rule of big money / Alan Dawley

The managerial revitalization of the rich / Jackson Lears

The foreign policy establishment / Godfrey Hodgson

Conservative elites and the counterrevolution against the New Deal / Michael Lind

Coda : democracy in America / Steve Fraser and Gary Gerstle.