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Trump, Donald, 1946-
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United States -- Politics and government -- 2017-
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| Descript |
1 online resource (1 volume) |
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text txt |
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computer c |
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online resource cr |
| Contents |
Cover; Front Matter; Half-title; Title page; Copyright information; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; A Note on Citations; Chapters (1-8); Chapter One Introduction: Donald Trump Through Veblen's Looking Glass; The American Case; Brutal Legacies; Enlightened Barbarism; Arrested Development; Notes; Chapter Two Evolution, Institutions and Barbarism; First, Evolution Not History; Selective Adaptation and the Instincts; The Instinct of Workmanship; Parental Bent; Idle Curiosity; Emulation; The Weight of Bias; Savage Roots of Barbarism; Barbarism and the Widening Scope of Emulation |
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Emulation for ExploitExploit, Gender and Predation; Barbarism, the Final Step; Notes; Chapter Three The American Plan: Barbaric Liberalism; American Pathways and American Characters; Liberalism, Democracy and Inequality; Liberalism and Barbarism in America; The American Plan; Presuppositions and Assumptions; Farmers, Good Losers; The American Country Town; Notes; Chapter Four Trumpian Ancestors, Exploitative Legacies; Friedrich Trump, Pioneer of Self-Help; Captains of Industry, Generals of Finance; Finance, Credit and the Decline of the Captain |
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Fred Trump and the Political Exploit of Public AuthorityE. Trump and Sons; Notes; Chapter Five Building for the Leisure Class; Character and Institution; Absentee Ownership and Institutional Change; Absentee Ownership, the New Deal's Revised Scheme; Absentee Ownership, Reversion to Type; Trump's Path: Crisis in New York City; The Young Donald; A City in Crisis; Donald's Opportunity; The Commodore; An Edifice of False Pretenses; Notes; Chapter Six "Picturesque Accompaniments"; The Social and Economic Mechanics of Celebrity; Fabrication of Fantasy |
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The Political Economy of Salesmanship and CelebrityCelebrity Entrance; Donald versus the NFL; Wollman Rick: Public Interest on Ice; Law and Order Man; Malefactor of Atlantic City; Show Business; Notes; Chapter Seven Candidate Trump and the Politics of Popular Rage; A Parvenu Braggart; The Hunt Begins; A Simmering Politics of Rage; The Campaigns; Notes; Chapter Eight Barbaric Governance; Bungling the Travel Ban; Repeal, Replace, Relapse; Where Trump Mattered; Veblen's Sense of Foreign Policy; Russiagate; Notes; End Matter; Index |
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Unlimited number of concurrent users. UkHlHU |
| ISBN |
9781783088737 (electronic bk.) |
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1783088737 (electronic bk.) |
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1783088729 |
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9781783088720 |
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9781783088744 |
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1783088745 |
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