Rich Don't Always Win The Forgotten Triumph over Plutocracy That Created the American Middle Class, 1900-1970

Name: Rich Don't Always Win The Forgotten Triumph over Plutocracy That Created the American Middle Class, 1900-1970
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ISBN: 9781609804343

ISBN-10: 1609804341

ISBN-13: 9781609804343

Edition: 2012

Authors: Sam Pizzigati

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The Occupy Wall Street protests have captured America's political imagination. Polls show that two-thirds of the nation now believe that America's enormous wealth ought to be "distributed more evenly." However, almost as many Americans--well over half--feel the protests will ultimately have "little impact" on inequality in America. What explains this disconnect? Most Americans have resigned themselves to believing that the rich simply always get their way.Except they don't.A century ago, the United States hosted a super-rich even more domineering than ours today. Yet fifty years later, that super-rich had almost entirely disappeared. Their majestic mansions and estates had become museums…

Book details

List price: $18.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Publication date: 11/27/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 374
Size: 6.02" wide x 8.98" long x 1.06" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English



Preface


Introductionp



Plutocracy Triumphant



Enter a New Opposition



World War and the Wealthy



The Rich Muck Up Modernity



Great Depression and Grand Confusion



A Tridal Wave of Popular Protest



Fighting Fascists, Capping Incomes



Red Scare, Red Rival



Labor and the Treaty of Detroit



A Nation Soaks the Rich



A Middle-Class Golden Age



Cracks in the Middle-Class Foundation



What If the Rich Never Stop Getting Richer?


Acknowledgments


Notes


Index


About the Author


About Seven Stories Press