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The New Gilded Age
\"We are the 99%\" has quickly become the slogan of our political era as growing numbers of Americans express concern about the disappearing middle class and the ever-widening gap between the super-rich and everyone else. Has America really entered a New Gilded Age? What are the political consequences of the growing income gap? Can democracy survive such vast economic inequality? These questions dominate our political moment--and Larry Bartels provides answers backed by sobering data.
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Mongrel firebugs and men of property : capitalism and class conflict in American history
\"Stories about American history, its origins and unfolding, do not, conventionally, feature capitalism. Other tales about the country's history usually take priority. If capitalism figures in at all, it is to forefront opportunity, entrepreneurial vigor, material abundance and the seven league boots of manifest destiny. Conflict may rear its unseemly face but only episodically, as a kind of alien or aberrant detour off the main road of America's exceptional career through the world. Instances of serious social discord, when they draw notice, get transcended, a course correction allowing the utopian project to resume. In this collection, Steve Fraser corrects the record, rewriting the arc of the American saga with capitalism and the class conflict centerstage, mounting a serious challenge to the consoling fantasy of American exceptionalism. Working through the central concepts of political economics - unemployment and risk, unfree labor and household debt - he demonstrates that class is a deeply structuring feature of American political life, and an invaluable heuristic for reading American politics in the longue durâee\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Ruling America
Ruling America offers a panoramic history of our country's
ruling elites from the time of the American Revolution to the
present. At its heart is the greatest of American paradoxes: How
have tiny minorities of the rich and privileged consistently
exercised so much power in a nation built on the notion of rule by
the people? In a series of thought-provoking essays, leading
scholars of American history examine every epoch in which ruling
economic elites have shaped our national experience. They explore
how elites came into existence, how they established their
dominance over public affairs, and how their rule came to an end.
The contributors analyze the elite coalition that led the
Revolution and then examine the antebellum planters of the South
and the merchant patricians of the North. Later chapters vividly
portray the Gilded Age \"robber barons,\" the great finance
capitalists in the age of J. P. Morgan, and the foreign-policy
\"Establishment\" of the post-World War II years. The book concludes
with a dissection of the corporate-led counter-revolution against
the New Deal characteristic of the Reagan and Bush era. Rarely in
the last half-century has one book afforded such a comprehensive
look at the ways elite wealth and power have influenced the
American experiment with democracy. At a time when the distribution
of wealth and power has never been more unequal, Ruling
America is of urgent contemporary relevance.
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Race, gender, and class in the tea party
It has been all too tempting to characterize the Tea Party as an irrational, racist, astro-turf movement composed of members who are working to subvert their own economic interests.Race, Gender, and Class in the Tea Party reveals a much messier and much more fascinating analysis of this movement.
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Race and the making of American liberalism
This book traces the roots of the contemporary crisis of progressive liberalism deep into the nation's racial past. It argues that the contemporary conservative claim that the American liberal tradition has been rooted in a “color blind” conception of individual rights is inaccurate and misleading. In contrast, American liberalism has alternatively served both to support and oppose racial hierarchy, as well as socioeconomic equity more broadly. Racial politics in the United States have repeatedly made it exceedingly difficult to establish powerful constituencies that understand socioeconomic equity as vital to American democracy and aspire to limit gross disparities of wealth, power, and status. Revitalizing such equalitarian conceptions of American liberalism, the book suggests, will require developing new forms of racial and class identity that support, rather than sabotage such fundamental political commitments.
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Falling behind
With a timely new foreword by Robert Frank, this groundbreaking book explores the very meaning of happiness and prosperity in America today. Although middle-income families don't earn much more than they did several decades ago, they are buying bigger cars, houses, and appliances. To pay for them, they spend more than they earn and carry record levels of debt. Robert Frank explains how increased concentrations of income and wealth at the top of the economic pyramid have set off \"expenditure cascades\" that raise the cost of achieving many basic goals for the middle class. Writing in lively prose for a general audience, Frank employs up-to-date economic data and examples drawn from everyday life to shed light on reigning models of consumer behavior. He also suggests reforms that could mitigate the costs of inequality. Falling Behind compels us to rethink how and why we live our economic lives the way we do.
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