Higher Circles makes a convincing case that elites run foreign policy
and shape social legislation through various devices from think tanks to
interlocking directorates, while the CIA molds the public consciousness by
financing institutions, infiltrating labor unions, and buying opinion-
makers. The book is name-intensive and full of concrete examples and
statistics. The final chapter presents a solid critique of the pluralists
-- the academic mandarins whose job it was to justify the status quo
during the 1960s. Twenty years later, when it became their job to justify
increasing poverty and homelessness, they gave up on pluralism and started
debating "trickle-down" economics. Meanwhile, professors got tenure and
the rich got richer.
ISBN 0-394-71671-X
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