Domhoff William. The Bohemian Grove and Other Retreats

New York USA : Harper Torchbooks.,1975. — 126 p. — ISBN: 06-090395-3English. A Study in Ruling-Class Cohesiveness. Upper-class retreats are also of sociological relevance, for they increase the social cohesiveness of America's rulers and provide private settings in which business and political problems can be discussed informally and off the record. Moreover, their existence is evidence for a theory heatedly disputed by most social scientists and political commentators: that a cohesive ruling group persists in the United States despite the country's size and the diversity of interests within it. The material for this book was gathered from club members, present and former employees of the clubs, historical archives, and newspapers. The biographical information, which is the systematic core of the book, comes primarily from the years 1965 to 1970. The people mentioned are merely exemplars of an ongoing social process.