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The Myth of the Ruling Class, by James H. Meisel
The American Scholar
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Summer 1958
, pp. 393-398
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The Myth of the Ruling Class
(1958)
James H. Meisel
Gaetano Mosca and the "Elite"
3
Reviews
Reflections on America
(1958)
Jacques Maritain
7
Reviews,
1
Readable
America as a Civilization
(1957)
Max Lerner
Life and Thought in the United States Today With a Postscript Chapter, the Ne...
16
Chapters,
1,051
pp -
16
Reviews,
3
Readable
The American Earthquake
(1958)
Edmund Wilson
A Documentary of the Jazz Age, the Great Depression, and the New Deal
4
Reviews,
1
Readable
The Novel of Violence in America: 1920-1950
(1950)
Wilbur M. Frohock
4
Reviews,
2
Readable
The Frontier Mind
(1957)
Arthur K. Moore
A Cultural Analysis of the Kentucky Frontiersman
3
Reviews,
1
Readable
Roots of Scientific Thought
(1958)
Philip P. Wiener and Aaron Noland
A Cultural Perspective
1
Review
From Earthquake, Fire and Flood
(1957)
Ronald Hewitt
1
Review
Fiction and the Unconscious
(1958)
Simon O. Lesser
1
Review
Gilbert: His Life and Strife
(1958)
Hesketh Pearson
3
Reviews,
1
Readable
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