Losing our way : an intimate portrait of a troubled America

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Losing our way : an intimate portrait of a troubled America

Title remainder

an intimate portrait of a troubled America

Statement of responsibility

Bob Herbert

Creator

• Herbert, Bob, 1945-

Subject

• Middle class
• United States -- Economic conditions -- 21st century
• United States -- Politics and government -- 1989-
• United States -- Social conditions -- 21st century

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"--

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Provided by publisher

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DLC

Dewey number

305.5/50973

Index

no index present

LC call number

HN59.2

LC item number

.H467 2014

Literary form

non fiction