They Rule The 1% vs. Democracy

Name: They Rule The 1% vs. Democracy
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ISBN: 9781612053271

ISBN-10: 1612053270

ISBN-13: 9781612053271

Edition: 2014

Authors: Paul Street

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This book reflects on key questions raised by recent movements and statements about the status of American politics and polity--from the Tea Party to Occupy, from the 1% to the 47% to the 99% that is the rest of us. These questions have also been raised by previous generations of labor, farmer, socialist, anarchist, and populist protestors and critics: Who owns and rules America beyond the pretense of democratic popular governance? Why does it matter that the nation's economy, society, culture, and politics are torn by stark class disparities and a concentration of wealth in the hands of a privileged few? What is the price of that savage inequality? And what can "we the people" do about it…

Book details

List price: $35.95
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 9/30/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 252
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.770
Language: English

Paul Street is an independent journalist, policy adviser, and historian. Formerly he was Vice President for Research and Planning at the Chicago Urban League. Among his recent books are Barack Obama and the Future of American Politics (Paradigm, 2008), Racial Oppression in the Global Metropolis: A Living Black Chicago History (Rowman & Littlefield, 2007), and Segregated Schools: Educational Apartheid in Post-Civil Rights America (Routledge, 2005). His many articles have appeared in the Chicago Tribune; In These Times; Dissent; Z Magazine; Black Commentator; Monthly Review, Journal of American Ethnic History; Journal of Social History, and other publications.