Brooks Adams, grandson of John Quincy Adams, argues that social revolutions come when a ruling class can no longer adapt to the forces of a new economy. He applies the theory to the United States of 1913, tracing how the courts, from the Dartmouth College case to the rate cases, became a political battleground between capital and public regulation.
A pointed Progressive Era essay on law, power and class from one of America’s most original historians. Download the free EPUB.