Who Rules America?

September, 2004

Our Paranoid HeartsThe United States today is not merely the lone super-power on our planet. Our nation has turned into a hyper-power and is determined to stay that way. Yet where within the new hyperpower does power actually reside? Who makes the decisions that control the national destiny? Power is a perpetual riddle.Three years after Playboy debuted in 1953, a new book purported to provide answers to such questions. It was called The Power Elite, and the author was a Columbia University socio...