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FIRST EDITION. Hardcover, pp. 135. Publisher's cloth boards in fine dust jacket. The book itself is flawless. The dust jacket shows two light sticker shadows on the inside flap. This book presents an important critique of prevailing political doctrine in Western societies at a time of major change in circumstances of Western civilization. G. Lowell Field and John Higley stress the importance of a more realistic appraisal of elite and mass roles in politics, arguing that political stability and any real degree of representative democracy depend fundamentally on the existence of specific kinds of elites.