"Why Do Ruling Classes Fear History?" And Other Questions

Kaye, Harvey J.

ISBN 10: 0312126913 / ISBN 13: 9780312126919

Published by St. Martin's Press, New York, 1996

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270pp. Spine ends are bumped. Spine has a small slant. Edges of jacket have light creases. Spine heel of jacket is missing a tiny piece. Text is unmarked. 0312126913.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: "Why Do Ruling Classes Fear History?" And Other Questions
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press, New York
• Publication Date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0312126913
• ISBN 13: 9780312126919
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Minus Jacket

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Synopsis

In "Why Do Ruling Classes Fear History?" and Other Questions, Harvey Kaye shows how our present-day political and economic elites stand in a long line of governing classes that have been eager to declare an end to the making of history. Invoking the hard-fought-for accomplishments of America's past and the persistent possibilities of its future, he calls upon his fellow citizens, especially intellectuals of the Left, to redeem the "prophetic memory" of American experience and renew the struggle for liberty, equality, and democracy. Through essays that range in tone and content from the rhetorical power of a public address to the intimacy of a personal memoir, Harvey Kaye looks at the value of knowledge and the power of history to liberate. Not content to accept the notion that history is at an end and that individuals are powerless to effect change, Kaye makes an impassioned plea to understand the ongoing, circuitous route of history and its ability to engender social action at a time when society seems to have lost tract of the true lessons that history can teach.

About the Author

Harvey J. Kaye is Ben & Joyce Rosenberg Professor of Social Change and Development at the University of Wisconsin - Green Bay.