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Gospels of Wealth: How the Rich Portray Their Lives

Gospels of Wealth: How the Rich Portray Their Lives

Schervish, Paul G.
Coutsoukis, Platon E.
Lewis, Ethan

Hardcover

Investing & FinanceGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0275946436
ISBN13: 9780275946432
Publisher: Praeger
Published: Dec 30 1994
Pages: 304
Weight: 1.45
Height: 1.09 Width: 6.16 Depth: 9.76
Language: English

There is fascination and suspicion about the wealthy. Yet there is a dearth of material in which the wealthy speak for themselves about the meaning of their lives. Gospels of Wealth provides such narrative material. This book is a novel venture in social science. It is the first book to have a broad range of wealthy individuals recount their lives in detail, and, importantly, the first to formulate a sociology of wealth that goes beyond conventional, power-elite, Marxist, and status-group theories.

The authors begin with an analytical framework for studying the biographical narratives of the wealthy. Next, 12 contemporary Americans directly and vividly recount how financial and spiritual aspects of their lives unfold and invariably intertwine. A concluding section explores rules for interpreting the truth of moral biographies and for undertaking a critical assessment of such narratives. The book's theoretical framework and first-person accounts will appeal to general readers as well as researchers in sociology, American studies, philanthropy, economic life, and cultural studies.

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