Publisher's Synopsis
This study addresses the dramatic decline in Americans' faith in the professional class. While professionals began as cornerstones of their communities, the modern professional class of doctors, lawyers, clergy and businesspeople have come to be seen as technical experts existing in a moral vacuum, with little or no concern for social responsibility.;The book traces the development of the professional class from the historic vocations of Church and state to the birth of individual specialists to the growth of the corporate economy, where the Protestant ethic has promoted "career" over "calling" with no check in America's free-market society. It concludes with several critical recommendations for restoring the once essential and positive role of the professional in society. William Sullivan is the author of "Habits of the Heart" and "The Good Society".
