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Middle Class and Democracy

Corey, Lewis | January 11, 1941 issue

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This article presents information on the book "The Middle Classes in American Politics," by Arthur N. Holcombe. The relation of the middle class to democracy and social change becomes constantly more significant and crucial. Yet the subject is .curiously neglected, save for appeals to prejudice and passion. In this sober, thoughtful study, Holcombe develops the thesis that the rural middle class was formerly on the whole the dominant factor in national politics, that the urban middle classes are now the dominant factor, and that these classes are the foundation of democracy.

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