The Resource Losing our way : an intimate portrait of a troubled America, Bob Herbert
Losing our way : an intimate portrait of a troubled America, Bob Herbert
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The item Losing our way : an intimate portrait of a troubled America, Bob Herbert represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Green Lake Public Library (Caestecker).
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- Summary
- "The United States needs to be reimagined. Once described by Lincoln as the last best hope on earth, the country seemed on the verge of fulfilling its immense promise in the mid 1960s and early 1970s: unemployment was low, wages and profits were high, and the nation's wealth--by today's standards--was distributed in a remarkably equitable fashion. America was a society confident that it could bring a middle-class standard of living (at the very least) and the full rights of citizenship to virtually everyone. This sense of possibility has evaporated. In this book longtime New York Times columnist Bob Herbert combines devastating stories of suffering Americans with keen political analysis to show where decades of corporate greed, political apathy, and short-term thinking have led: America's infrastructure is crumbling, our schools fail our children, unnecessary wars maim our young men, and underemployment plagues a generation. He traces how the United States went wrong, exposing the slow, dangerous shift of political influence from the working population in the 1960s to the corporate and financial elite today, who act largely in their own self-interest. But the situation isn't entirely hopeless. Herbert argues that by tapping the creative ideas of people across the country who are implementing solutions at the local level, the middle class can reassert its power, put the economy back on track, and usher in a new progressive era"--
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 283 pages
- Contents
-
- Falling apart
- Falling apart II
- Jobs and the middle class
- War and its aftermath
- Understating the costs of war
- Poverty and inequality
- The public schools
- Poverty and public education
- War's madness runs deep
- Hurricane Sandy and other disasters
- Cashing in on schools
- Mistreating the troops
- Epilogue: looking ahead
- Isbn
- 9780385528238
- Link
- 9780385528238.jpg
- Label
- Losing our way : an intimate portrait of a troubled America
- Title
- Losing our way
- Title remainder
- an intimate portrait of a troubled America
- Statement of responsibility
- Bob Herbert
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "The United States needs to be reimagined. Once described by Lincoln as the last best hope on earth, the country seemed on the verge of fulfilling its immense promise in the mid 1960s and early 1970s: unemployment was low, wages and profits were high, and the nation's wealth--by today's standards--was distributed in a remarkably equitable fashion. America was a society confident that it could bring a middle-class standard of living (at the very least) and the full rights of citizenship to virtually everyone. This sense of possibility has evaporated. In this book longtime New York Times columnist Bob Herbert combines devastating stories of suffering Americans with keen political analysis to show where decades of corporate greed, political apathy, and short-term thinking have led: America's infrastructure is crumbling, our schools fail our children, unnecessary wars maim our young men, and underemployment plagues a generation. He traces how the United States went wrong, exposing the slow, dangerous shift of political influence from the working population in the 1960s to the corporate and financial elite today, who act largely in their own self-interest. But the situation isn't entirely hopeless. Herbert argues that by tapping the creative ideas of people across the country who are implementing solutions at the local level, the middle class can reassert its power, put the economy back on track, and usher in a new progressive era"--
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1945-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Herbert, Bob
- Dewey number
- 305.5/50973
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- HN59.2
- LC item number
- .H467 2014
- Literary form
- non fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- United States
- United States
- Middle class
- United States
- Label
- Losing our way : an intimate portrait of a troubled America, Bob Herbert
- Link
- 9780385528238.jpg
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [259]-283)
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Falling apart -- Falling apart II -- Jobs and the middle class -- War and its aftermath -- Understating the costs of war -- Poverty and inequality -- The public schools -- Poverty and public education -- War's madness runs deep -- Hurricane Sandy and other disasters -- Cashing in on schools -- Mistreating the troops -- Epilogue: looking ahead
- Control code
- ocn881875895
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 283 pages
- Isbn
- 9780385528238
- Isbn Type
- (hardcover)
- Lccn
- 2014022729
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- System control number
- (OCoLC)881875895
- Label
- Losing our way : an intimate portrait of a troubled America, Bob Herbert
- Link
- 9780385528238.jpg
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [259]-283)
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Falling apart -- Falling apart II -- Jobs and the middle class -- War and its aftermath -- Understating the costs of war -- Poverty and inequality -- The public schools -- Poverty and public education -- War's madness runs deep -- Hurricane Sandy and other disasters -- Cashing in on schools -- Mistreating the troops -- Epilogue: looking ahead
- Control code
- ocn881875895
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 283 pages
- Isbn
- 9780385528238
- Isbn Type
- (hardcover)
- Lccn
- 2014022729
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- System control number
- (OCoLC)881875895
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