What's the Matter with White People? Finding Our Way in the Next America

Name: What's the Matter with White People? Finding Our Way in the Next America
Price: 5.7 USD
Availability: InStock
ISBN: 9781476733128

ISBN-10: 1476733120

ISBN-13: 9781476733128

Edition: N/A

Authors: Joan Walsh

List price: $29.99

30 day, 100% satisfaction guarantee!

Buy new: $17.00

Marketplace

3 new & used from $5.70

what's this?

Rush Rewards U
Members Receive:

You have reached 400 XP and carrot coins. That is the daily max!

Description:

CLASS WARS THAT THREATEN THE AMERICAN MIDDLE-CLASS DREAMIn What’s the Matter with White People? Walsh argues that the biggest divide in America today is based not on party or ideology but on two competing explanations for why middle-class stability has been shaken since the 1970s. One side sees an America that has spent the last forty years bankrupting the country by providing benefits for the underachieving, the immoral, and the undeserving—no matter the cost to the majority of Americans. The other side sees an America that has spent the last forty years catering to the wealthy while allowing only a nominal measure of progress for the downtrodden.Using her extended Irish-Catholic…

Book details

List price: $29.99
Publisher: Touchstone
Publication date: 4/16/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.37" long x 1.20" tall
Weight: 0.924
Language: English



Preface


Introduction



Fact-Checking a Fractured Irish Fairy Tale



Growing Up in Nixonland



The Loneliness of the Reagan-Era Do-Gooder



Some of My Best Presidents Are Black



What's the Matter with White People?


Postscript


Acknowledgments


Index