{"product_id":"aristocracy-in-america-9780826221568","title":"Aristocracy in America","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrancis J. Grund, a German emigrant, was one of the most influential journalists in America in the three decades preceding the Civil War. He also wrote several books, including \u003cem\u003eAristocracy in America\u003c\/em\u003e (1839). In his introduction to this long out-of-print work, Armin Mattes provides a thorough account of Grund's dynamic engagement in American political life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMattes has done historians a real service by contextualizing and annotating a primary source that, among its many discernments, finds inequality in America, not in the political and economic spheres, but in a pseudo-aristocratic social elitism.\"\" - Kevin Butterfield, director of the Institute for the American Constitutional Heritage at the University of Oklahoma, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Making of Tocqueville's America\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"University of Missouri Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51534994178391,"sku":"9780826221568","price":44.06,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780826221568.jpg?v=1755858540","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/aristocracy-in-america-9780826221568","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}