The American Ruling Class is a morality tale set to music about two Yale students who seek their opportunities after graduation. Lewis Lapham, the renowned essayist, author and longtime Harper’s Magazine editor, conducts them through the corridors of power – Pentagon press briefings, the World Economic Forum, philanthropic foundations, Washington law firms, banks, the Council on Foreign Relations and New York society dinners. As they make their way, the real-life luminaries they meet become characters in a dramatic story about power, its responsibilities and abuses. The subject is our country’s most taboo topic: class, power and privilege in our nominally democratic republic.

Part Monty Python, part Michael Moore, The American Ruling Class is an entertaining clarion call for all citizens to consider who has power, how they acquired it, and most importantly, how they keep it.

“A guided safari through the tribal haunts of the power elite.”
-Vanity Fair

“The American Ruling Class k.o.’d me..a remarkable and revelatory documentary
…an astonishing program”
-Studs Terkel

Introduced and Hosted by
Lewis Lapham

Featuring interviews with
Robert Altman
James A. Baker
Bill Bradley
Harold Brown
Hodding Carter III
William T. Coleman, Jr.
Walter Cronkite
Barbara Ehrenreich
Vartan Gregorian
Mike Medavoy
Joseph S. Nye, Jr.
Samuel Peabody
Pete Seeger
Lawrence H. Summers
Arthur O. Sulzberger, Jr.
William Howard Taft IV
Kurt Vonnegut
Howard Zinn

PLEASE NOTE: FOR HOME USE ONLY. This film is not available from Alive Mind for educational institutions, public libraries and the non-theatrical market. Please contact BULLFROG FILMS.

American Ruling Class DVD
Price:	$26.98 (Home Use)
Item #:	ALV-DV-15
Availability:	Worldwide
Running Time:	89 minutes
Technical Aspects:	16×9, NTSC Region 0
Language:	English
Copyright:	© 2007 The Press and the Public Project. All rights reserved.

• Video Clips - Coming soon
• Photo Gallery - Coming soon
• Participants
• Filmmakers
• Festivals
• Reviews
• Statements
• Credits
• Official Site