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008			140626s2014 nyu 000 0 eng
010			_a 2014022729
040			_aDLC _beng _erda _cDLC _dOCLCO _dO2D
020			_a9780385528238 (hardback)
020			_a038552823X (hardback)
035			_a(OCoLC)881875895
050	0	0	_aHN59.2 _b.H467 2014
082	0	0	_a305.5/50973 _223
092			_a305.5509 _bH536L
100	1		_aHerbert, Bob, _d1945-
245	1	0	_aLosing our way : _ban intimate portrait of a troubled America / _cBob Herbert.
250			_aFirst edition.
263			_a1410
264		1	_aNew York : _bDoubleday, _c2014.
300			_a283 pages ; _c24 cm
336			_atext _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _2rdacarrier
520			_a"In a searing indictment of America's decline, former New York Times columnist Bob Herbert profiles struggling Americans--casualties of decades of government policies that have produced underemployment, inequality, and pointless wars--and offers a ringing call to arms to restore justice and the American dream. The United States needs to be reimagined. Once described by Lincoln as the last best hope on earth, the country seemed on the verge of fulfilling its immense promise in the mid 1960s and early 1970s: unemployment was low, wages and profits were high, and the nation's wealth--by today's standards--was distributed in a remarkably equitable fashion. America was a society confident that it could bring a middle-class standard of living (at the very least) and the full rights of citizenship to virtually everyone. This sense of possibility has evaporated. In this book longtime New York Times columnist Bob Herbert combines devastating stories of suffering Americans with keen political analysis to show where decades of corporate greed, political apathy, and short-term thinking have led: America's infrastructure is crumbling, our schools fail our children, unnecessary wars maim our young men, and underemployment plagues a generation. He traces how the United States went wrong, exposing the slow, dangerous shift of political influence from the working population in the 1960s to the corporate and financial elite today, who act largely in their own self-interest. But the situation isn't entirely hopeless. Herbert argues that by tapping the creative ideas of people across the country who are implementing solutions at the local level, the middle class can reassert its power, put the economy back on track, and usher in a new progressive era"-- _cProvided by publisher.
520			_a"The United States needs to be reimagined. Once described by Lincoln as the last best hope on earth, the country seemed on the verge of fulfilling its immense promise in the mid 1960s and early 1970s: unemployment was low, wages and profits were high, and the nation's wealth--by today's standards--was distributed in a remarkably equitable fashion. America was a society confident that it could bring a middle-class standard of living (at the very least) and the full rights of citizenship to virtually everyone. This sense of possibility has evaporated. In this book longtime New York Times columnist Bob Herbert combines devastating stories of suffering Americans with keen political analysis to show where decades of corporate greed, political apathy, and short-term thinking have led: America's infrastructure is crumbling, our schools fail our children, unnecessary wars maim our young men, and underemployment plagues a generation. He traces how the United States went wrong, exposing the slow, dangerous shift of political influence from the working population in the 1960s to the corporate and financial elite today, who act largely in their own self-interest. But the situation isn't entirely hopeless. Herbert argues that by tapping the creative ideas of people across the country who are implementing solutions at the local level, the middle class can reassert its power, put the economy back on track, and usher in a new progressive era"-- _cProvided by publisher.
651		0	_aUnited States _xSocial conditions _y21st century.
651		0	_aUnited States _xEconomic conditions _y21st century.
650		0	_aMiddle class _zUnited States.
651		0	_aUnited States _xPolitics and government _y1989-
650		7	_aPOLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / General. _2bisacsh
650		7	_aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes. _2bisacsh
650		7	_aPOLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Policy. _2bisacsh
856	4	2	_3Cover image _u9780385528238.jpg
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