Clyde Barrow - Universities and the Capitalist State (1894-1928

Barrow - Universities and the Capitalist State. Corporate Liberalism and the Recostruction of American Higher Education (1894-1928)

Clyde Barrow demonstrates how the tax-exempt foundations of Carnegie and Rockefeller seized hold of the entire American university system, in order to restructure it in accordanc with their own objectives. Barrow also details how the curriculum was rewritten, and how the myth of America's role in history as the defender of democracy was invented.

"Barrow's thoughtful and informed study outlines the shaping of the American university system against the background of rising corporate power, the demands of the state ideological apparatus, and the ebb and flow of popular forces. It provides much insight into the tensions inherent in a system of private power and democratic ideals, and their consequences for the academic institutions and intellectual life generally.”Noam Chomsky.