The Age of Acquiescence ─ The Life and Death of American Resistance to Organized Wealth and Power

From the Revolution through the Civil Rights Movement, Americans mobilized against political, social, and economic privilege. But over the last half-century that political will has vanished. InThe Age of Acquiescence, Steve Fraser explains why. His account of national transformation brilliantly examines the rise of American capitalism, the visionary attempts to protect the democratic commonwealth, and the great surrender to today's delusional fables of freedom and the politics of fear. Effervescent and razorsharp, The Age of Acquiescence is indispensable for understanding why we no longer fight for a more just society, and how we can revive the great American tradition of resistance in our own time.

Steve Fraser is the author of The Age of Acquiescence, Every Man a Speculator,Wall Street, and Labor Will Rule, which won the Philip Taft Award for the best book in labor history. He also is the co-editor ofThe Rise and Fall of the New Deal Order. His work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, theNew York Times, The Nation, The American Prospect, Raritan, and theLondon Review of Books. He has written for the online site tomdispatch.com, and his work has appeared on the Huffington Post, Salon, Truthout, and Alternet, among others. A onetime Basic editor, he has a PhD in American history from Rutgers.