About the Book
Despite America's great traditions of independence and self-rule, ordinary citizens are losing their freedoms to a swelling group of "bipartisan political elites," Boston University professor Angelo M. Codevilla writes in his new book, The Ruling Class: How They Corrupted America And What We Can Do About It.
The book expands on themes of an essay that originally appeared in The American Spectator that ignited a firestorm among opinion leaders and was a topic so hot Rush Limbaugh devoted an entire show to it. The Ruling Class has been hailed as "required reading" and quickly gained a following as one of the most important analyses of modern political thought.
Beyond President Barack Obama and Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Mr. Codevilla names establishment Republicans and the rich and powerful on Wall Street and in the media who have rallied behind big government policies with their influence. In their elite wisdom, they demean average Americans as "retrograde, racist and dysfunctional."
Codevilla identifies such members of The Ruling Class as Thomas Friedman, Trent Lott, Peggy Noonan, David Brooks, David Frum, and the Service International Employees Union.
According to Codevilla, American society is now divided into The Ruling Class and the Country Class. The Country Class "views the way people live their lives as the result of countless private choices rather than as the consequences of someone else's master plan."
In The Ruling Class, Angelo M. Codevilla reveals:
- How higher education has indoctrinated The Ruling Class with a sort of group think;
- How the government has become a focal point and main employer of The Ruling Class;
- How The Ruling Class is a direct result of progressive policies and the agenda of the Left;
- And how The Ruling Class taxes and redistributes one third of what Americans produce.
It is becoming more and more apparent that this Ruling Class does not represent the interests of the majority of Americans, who want to rule themselves and enjoy the freedom on whose promise America was founded. Join the millions of Americans who have begun to shun the Ruling Class and instead are reasserting their right to obey the Constitution.
Paperback: 160 pages
Publisher: Beaufort Books (September, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0825305586
ISBN-13: 978-0825305580
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Angelo M. Codevilla is professor emeritus of international relations at Boston University. Educated at Rutgers (1965) Notre Dame (1968), and the Claremont graduate university (1973), Codevilla served in the U.S. Navy, the U.S. Foreign Service, and on the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.
He taught philosophy at Georgetown, classified intelligence matters at the U.S. Naval Post graduate School. During a decade at Stanford's Hoover Institution, he wrote books on war, intelligence, and the character of nations. At Boston University, he taught international relations from the perspectives of history and character. His latest book is Advice to War Presidents (Basic Books 2009), and previous books include The Character of Nations: How Politics Makes and Breaks Prosperity, Family, and Civility, and Between The Alps and a Hard Place.
Angelo M. Codevilla:
The Almanac of American Politics
The American Spectator
