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Until publication of Riches, Class, and Power, Alexis de Tocqueville's vision of the United States as a generally egalitarian nation predominated. While historians might quarrel about the social sources of egalitarianism, they did not dispute the soundness of the basic model; and Tocqueville's vision clearly dominated America's sense of itself as well.Pessen, Edward is the author of 'Riches, Class, and Power America Before the Civil War', published 1990 under ISBN 9780887388064 and ISBN 088738806X.
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