From Who's Running America? The Bush Restoration by Thomas R. Dye
Dye's excerpt is an empirical assessment of the kinds of individuals who assume administrative, legislative, and judicial power as these branches have increased in size and influence in recent decades. His findings are decisive: those with privileged backgrounds have not only increasingly assumed these important roles but their wealth--and not individual personal characteristics--have paved the way for them to assume these important positions.
-Most top-office holders have inherited wealth rather than earned the wealth that helps jump-start and sustain their political careers.

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Dye's findings indicate that those with privileged backgrounds and inherited wealth have increasingly assumed important political roles.

From Who's Running America? the Bush Restoration by Thomas R