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Unbranded
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MPN
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Does not apply
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ISBN
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9780767905336
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Book Title
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Wealth and Democracy : How Great Fortunes and Government Created America’s Aristocracy
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Publisher
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Broadway Books
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9.4 in
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Publication Year
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2002
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Format
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Hardcover
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Language
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English
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Illustrator
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Yes
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Genre
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Political Science, Social Science, Business & Economics
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Topic
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Corruption & Misconduct, Social Classes & Economic Disparity, History & Theory, Poverty & Homelessness, Economic Conditions, Economics / General, American Government / General
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28 Oz
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6.7 in
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Number of Pages
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496 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Broadway Books
ISBN-10
0767905334
ISBN-13
9780767905336
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1974245
Product Key Features
Book Title
Wealth and Democracy : How Great Fortunes and Government Created America’s Aristocracy
Number of Pages
496 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2002
Topic
Corruption & Misconduct, Social Classes & Economic Disparity, History & Theory, Poverty & Homelessness, Economic Conditions, Economics / General, American Government / General
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Political Science, Social Science, Business & Economics
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Weight
28 Oz
Item Length
9.4 in
Item Width
6.7 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2001-052656
Dewey Edition
21
Dewey Decimal
305.5/234/0973
Synopsis
For more than thirty years, Kevin Phillips’ insight into American politics and economics has helped to make history as well as record it. His bestselling books, including The Emerging Republican Majority (1969) and The Politics of Rich and Poor (1990), have influenced presidential campaigns and changed the way America sees itself. Widely acknowledging Phillips as one of the nation’s most perceptive thinkers, reviewers have called him a latter-day Nostradamus and our “modern Thomas Paine.” Now, in the first major book of its kind since the 1930s, he turns his attention to the United States’ history of great wealth and power, a sweeping cavalcade from the American Revolution to what he calls “the Second Gilded Age” at the turn of the twenty-first century. The Second Gilded Age has been staggering enough in its concentration of wealth to dwarf the original Gilded Age a hundred years earlier. However, the tech crash and then the horrible events of September 11, 2001, pointed out that great riches are as vulnerable as they have ever been. In Wealth and Democracy, Kevin Phillips charts the ongoing American saga of great wealthhow it has been accumulated, its shifting sources, and its ups and downs over more than two centuries. He explores how the rich and politically powerful have frequently worked together to create or perpetuate privilege, often at the expense of the national interest and usually at the expense of the middle and lower classes. With intriguing chapters on history and bold analysis of present-day America, Phillips illuminates the dangerous politics that go with excessive concentration of wealth. Profiling wealthy Americansfrom Astor to Carnegie and Rockefeller to contemporary wealth holdersPhillips provides fascinating details about the peculiarly American ways of becoming and staying a multimillionaire. He exposes the subtle corruption spawned by a money culture and financial power, evident in economic philosophy, tax favoritism, and selective bailouts in the name of free enterprise, economic stimulus, and national security. Finally, Wealth and Democracy turns to the history of Britain and other leading world economic powers to examine the symptoms that signaled their declinesspeculative finance, mounting international debt, record wealth, income polarization, and disgruntled politicssigns that we recognize in America at the start of the twenty-first century. In a time of national crisis, Phillips worries that the growing parallels suggest the tide may already be turning for us all. From the Hardcover edition.
LC Classification Number
HC110.W4P484 2002
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