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THE NEW ELITESWALDEN G.wydawnictwo: PENGUIN, 2001, wydanie Icena netto: The New Elites Making the Career in the Masses Like a demon ten-pin bowler, George Walden has eyed his target with fevered contempt and, with one majestic sweep of his bowling arm, has scattered an entire regiment Graham Stewart, The Times Elites are perennial, George Walden argues. What matters is who they are and ours is the first era in which we are ruled by elites in disguise. Far from being classless, or a functioning meritocracy, Britain is dominated by an oligarchy of professional egalitarians. Their aim is not to raise popular aspirations but to exploit mass taste, mass gullibility or mass spending power for their own advantage. As Walden mercilessly shows, their populism is in fact 'a perversion of democracy, the sickness of the age. George Walden doesn't mince his words ... the book is highly entertaining, languidly slaying sacred cows and dodging the secret police of the populist elites. But it is also meant very seriously, and, even when its arguments invite equally serious dissent, it is not merely striking stances Robert Potts, The Times Literary Supplement If humbuggery is, more than ever, the English disease, Walden is its pitiless diagnostician ... in a brilliant parable, Walden depicts Commerce, Politics and the Media in a menage a trois Frederic Raphael, Sunday Times Unputdownable ... full of teasing quotations, challenging ideas and truly fabulous turns of phrase, Walden has produced a slim but brilliant volume that you will, by turns, want to fling at the wall and read out loud to your friends ... hugely enjoyable Gyles Brandreth, Good Book Guide Walden has a fine eye for stupidities, and a very sharp pen ... his book presents a brilliant analysis of the "inverted snobbery" of the new elite, showing how our new masters, many of them from upper-middle-class backgrounds, affect to despise the very class to which they belong Noel Malcolm, Sunday Telegraph 206 pages
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