Episode 67: The Power Elite (EDS Part 8) [TRAILER]
American Exception
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The Power Structure of the American System
Mills was trying to reconcile the idea that history is completely structural, and individuals have no influence. And he had to go back in time to explain different historical eras to this end. At the post warera as being the fifth of different eras in the us. Power structure. The first one is this kind of this era of elit cohesion,. After after the war for independence, and through john adams. Then you get the gilded age, which goes up to through the great up to the great depression. An gild gilded age is the rise of corporate power - cemented in 18 86 with the supreme court decision that grants corporate personhood a using the fourteenth amendment as
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