The Resource Tailspin : the people and forces behind America's fifty-year fall--and those fighting to reverse it, Steven Brill
Tailspin : the people and forces behind America's fifty-year fall--and those fighting to reverse it, Steven Brill
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- "From the award-winning journalist and best-selling author of America's Bitter Pill: a tour de force examination of 1) how and why major American institutions no longer serve us as they should, causing a deep rift between the vulnerable majority and the protected few, and 2) how some individuals and organizations are laying the foundation for real, lasting change. In this revelatory narrative covering the years 1967 to 2017, Steven Brill gives us a stunningly cogent picture of the broken system at the heart of our society. He shows us how, over the last half-century, America's core values--meritocracy, innovation, due process, free speech, and even democracy itself--have somehow managed to power its decline into dysfunction. They have isolated our best and brightest, whose positions at the top have never been more secure or more remote. The result has been an erosion of responsibility and accountability, an epidemic of shortsightedness, an increasingly hollow economic and political center, and millions of Americans gripped by apathy and hopelessness. By examining the people and forces behind the rise of big-money lobbying, legal and financial engineering, the demise of private-sector unions, and a hamstrung bureaucracy, Brill answers the question on everyone's mind: How did we end up this way? Finally, he introduces us to those working quietly and effectively to repair the damages. At once a diagnosis of our national ills, a history of their development, and a prescription for a brighter future, Tailspin is a work of riveting journalism--and a welcome antidote to political despair"--
- Brill believes that over the last half-century America's core values-- meritocracy, innovation, due process, free speech, and even democracy itself-- have somehow managed to power its decline into dysfunction. In examining the people and forces behind the rise of big-money lobbying, legal and financial engineering, the demise of private-sector unions, and a hamstrung bureaucracy, he answers the question on everyone's mind: How did we end up this way? -- adapted from publisher's info
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 441 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
- Note
- Source of cataloging data: WCP
- Contents
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- The protected and the unprotected
- Meritocracy becomes the new aristocracy
- Casino country
- The greening of the First Amendment
- Making markets efficient
- and marginalizing those left behind
- "Lip service" for America's workers
- Dysfunctional democracy
- Moat nation
- Why nothing works
- Broken
- Protecting the most unprotected
- Storming the moats
- Isbn
- 9781524731632
- Label
- Tailspin : the people and forces behind America's fifty-year fall--and those fighting to reverse it
- Title
- Tailspin
- Title remainder
- the people and forces behind America's fifty-year fall--and those fighting to reverse it
- Statement of responsibility
- Steven Brill
- Subject
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- Political culture -- United States
- Since 1945
- Social change -- United States
- Democracy -- United States
- United States -- Politics and government -- 1989-
- United States -- Social conditions -- 1960-1980
- United States -- Social conditions -- 1980-
- United States -- Politics and government -- 1945-1989
- Equality -- United States
- Language
- eng
- Summary
-
- "From the award-winning journalist and best-selling author of America's Bitter Pill: a tour de force examination of 1) how and why major American institutions no longer serve us as they should, causing a deep rift between the vulnerable majority and the protected few, and 2) how some individuals and organizations are laying the foundation for real, lasting change. In this revelatory narrative covering the years 1967 to 2017, Steven Brill gives us a stunningly cogent picture of the broken system at the heart of our society. He shows us how, over the last half-century, America's core values--meritocracy, innovation, due process, free speech, and even democracy itself--have somehow managed to power its decline into dysfunction. They have isolated our best and brightest, whose positions at the top have never been more secure or more remote. The result has been an erosion of responsibility and accountability, an epidemic of shortsightedness, an increasingly hollow economic and political center, and millions of Americans gripped by apathy and hopelessness. By examining the people and forces behind the rise of big-money lobbying, legal and financial engineering, the demise of private-sector unions, and a hamstrung bureaucracy, Brill answers the question on everyone's mind: How did we end up this way? Finally, he introduces us to those working quietly and effectively to repair the damages. At once a diagnosis of our national ills, a history of their development, and a prescription for a brighter future, Tailspin is a work of riveting journalism--and a welcome antidote to political despair"--
- Brill believes that over the last half-century America's core values-- meritocracy, innovation, due process, free speech, and even democracy itself-- have somehow managed to power its decline into dysfunction. In examining the people and forces behind the rise of big-money lobbying, legal and financial engineering, the demise of private-sector unions, and a hamstrung bureaucracy, he answers the question on everyone's mind: How did we end up this way? -- adapted from publisher's info
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1950-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Brill, Steven
- Dewey number
- 306.0973
- Illustrations
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- illustrations
- plates
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- HN59
- LC item number
- .B75 2018
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- United States
- United States
- Social change
- Political culture
- Equality
- Democracy
- United States
- United States
- Label
- Tailspin : the people and forces behind America's fifty-year fall--and those fighting to reverse it, Steven Brill
- Note
- Source of cataloging data: WCP
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- The protected and the unprotected -- Meritocracy becomes the new aristocracy -- Casino country -- The greening of the First Amendment -- Making markets efficient -- and marginalizing those left behind -- "Lip service" for America's workers -- Dysfunctional democracy -- Moat nation -- Why nothing works -- Broken -- Protecting the most unprotected -- Storming the moats
- Control code
- on1010776846
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 441 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9781524731632
- Lccn
- 2017051857
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
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- (Sirsi) i9781524731632
- (OCoLC)1010776846
- Label
- Tailspin : the people and forces behind America's fifty-year fall--and those fighting to reverse it, Steven Brill
- Note
- Source of cataloging data: WCP
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- The protected and the unprotected -- Meritocracy becomes the new aristocracy -- Casino country -- The greening of the First Amendment -- Making markets efficient -- and marginalizing those left behind -- "Lip service" for America's workers -- Dysfunctional democracy -- Moat nation -- Why nothing works -- Broken -- Protecting the most unprotected -- Storming the moats
- Control code
- on1010776846
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 441 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9781524731632
- Lccn
- 2017051857
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) i9781524731632
- (OCoLC)1010776846
Subject
- Political culture -- United States
- Since 1945
- Social change -- United States
- Democracy -- United States
- United States -- Politics and government -- 1989-
- United States -- Social conditions -- 1960-1980
- United States -- Social conditions -- 1980-
- United States -- Politics and government -- 1945-1989
- Equality -- United States
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