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Author : Sasha Abramsky
Release : 2013-09-10
Genre : Social Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 260/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The American Way of Poverty by : Sasha Abramsky
Download or read book The American Way of Poverty written by Sasha Abramsky. This book was released on 2013-09-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abramsky shows how poverty - a massive political scandal - is dramatically changing in the wake of the Great Recession.
Author : Sasha Abramsky
Release : 2013-09-10
Genre : Social Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 557/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The American Way of Poverty by : Sasha Abramsky
Download or read book The American Way of Poverty written by Sasha Abramsky. This book was released on 2013-09-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selected as A Notable Book of the Year by The New York Times Book Review Fifty years after Michael Harrington published his groundbreaking book The Other America, in which he chronicled the lives of people excluded from the Age of Affluence, poverty in America is back with a vengeance. It is made up of both the long-term chronically poor and new working poor -- the tens of millions of victims of a broken economy and an ever more dysfunctional political system. In many ways, for the majority of Americans, financial insecurity has become the new norm. The American Way of Poverty shines a light on this travesty. Sasha Abramsky brings the effects of economic inequality out of the shadows and, ultimately, suggests ways for moving toward a fairer and more equitable social contract. Exploring everything from housing policy to wage protections and affordable higher education, Abramsky lays out a panoramic blueprint for a reinvigorated political process that, in turn, will pave the way for a renewed War on Poverty. It is, Harrington believed, a moral outrage that in a country as wealthy as America, so many people could be so poor. Written in the wake of the 2008 financial collapse, in an era of grotesque economic extremes, The American Way of Poverty brings that same powerful indignation to the topic.
Author : Michael Harrington
Release : 1997-08
Genre : Political Science
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Book Rating : 78X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Other America by : Michael Harrington
Download or read book The Other America written by Michael Harrington. This book was released on 1997-08. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the economic underworld of migrant farm workers, the aged, minority groups, and other economically underprivileged groups.
Author : Paul Wachtel
Release : 2017-03-28
Genre : Business & Economics
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Book Rating : 219/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Poverty of Affluence by : Paul Wachtel
Download or read book The Poverty of Affluence written by Paul Wachtel. This book was released on 2017-03-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An excellent profile of middle-class psychology in America, its habits, expectations and frustrations.
Author : Wendy L. Wall
Release : 2009-09-03
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 820/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Inventing the "American Way" by : Wendy L. Wall
Download or read book Inventing the "American Way" written by Wendy L. Wall. This book was released on 2009-09-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the wake of World War II, Americans developed an unusually deep and all-encompassing national unity, as postwar affluence and the Cold War combined to naturally produce a remarkable level of agreement about the nation's core values. Or so the story has long been told. Inventing the "American Way" challenges this vision of inevitable consensus. Americans, as Wendy Wall argues in this innovative book, were united, not so much by identical beliefs, as by a shared conviction that a distinctive "American Way" existed and that the affirmation of such common ground was essential to the future of the nation. Moreover, the roots of consensus politics lie not in the Cold War era, but in the turbulent decade that preceded U.S. entry into World War II. The social and economic chaos of the Depression years alarmed a diverse array of groups, as did the rise of two "alien" ideologies: fascism and communism. In this context, Americans of divergent backgrounds and beliefs seized on the notion of a unifying "American Way" and sought to convince their fellow citizens of its merits. Wall traces the competing efforts of business groups, politicians, leftist intellectuals, interfaith proponents, civil rights activists, and many others over nearly three decades to shape public understandings of the "American Way." Along the way, she explores the politics behind cultural productions ranging from The Adventures of Superman to the Freedom Train that circled the nation in the late 1940s. She highlights the intense debate that erupted over the term "democracy" after World War II, and identifies the origins of phrases such as "free enterprise" and the "Judeo-Christian tradition" that remain central to American political life. By uncovering the culture wars of the mid-twentieth century, this book sheds new light on a period that proved pivotal for American national identity and that remains the unspoken backdrop for debates over multiculturalism, national unity, and public values today.
