Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-245) and index.
Contents
pt. 1. Making the century American -- ch. 1. Producers, brokers, and users of knowledge -- ch. 2. Defining tools of social intelligence -- ch. 3. Inventing the average American -- pt. 2. Social contract of the market -- ch. 4. Turning out consumers -- ch. 5. Deradicalizing class -- pt. 3. Embattled identities -- ch. 6. From voluntarism to pluralism -- ch. 7. Enlarging the policy -- pt. 4. Exporting American principles -- ch. 8. Individualism and modernization -- ch. 9. Power of uncertainty.