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Film, Video Daniel Markovits: National Book Festival 2020

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Title

  • Daniel Markovits: National Book Festival 2020

Summary

  • From eminent Yale Law professor Daniel Markovits, "The Meritocracy Trap: How America's Foundational Myth Feeds Inequality, Dismantles the Middle Class and Devours the Elite" (Penguin) presents a revolutionary new argument attacking the false promise of meritocracy, the axiom of American life that advantage should be earned through ability and effort.

Names

  • Library of Congress
  • National Book Festival (U.S.), sponsoring body

Created / Published

  • Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 2020-09-26.

Headings

  • -  2020 National Book Festival: Democracy in the 21st Century

Notes

  • -  Group name: 2020 National Book Festival: Understanding Our World. 2
  • -  Daniel Markovits.
  • -  Recorded on 2020-09-26.

Medium

  • 1 online resource

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2024697119

Online Format

  • video
  • image
  • online text

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Library Of Congress, and U.S National Book Festival. Daniel Markovits: National Book Festival. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -09-26, 2020. Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/2024697119/.

APA citation style:

Library Of Congress & National Book Festival, U. S. (2020) Daniel Markovits: National Book Festival. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -09-26. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2024697119/.

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Library Of Congress, and U.S National Book Festival. Daniel Markovits: National Book Festival. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -09-26, 2020. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2024697119/>.