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Tailspin: The People and Forces Behind America's Fifty-Year Fall--And Those Fighting to Reverse It
Contributor(s): Brill, Steven (Author)

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ISBN: 0525432019     ISBN-13: 9780525432012
Publisher: Vintage
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Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: April 2019
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BISAC Categories:
- Political Science | Public Policy - Economic Policy
- Political Science | Civics & Citizenship
- Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social
Dewey: 306.097
Physical Information: 1.1" H x 5.1" W x 7.9" L (0.90 lbs) 480 pages
Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Price on Product
 
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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.

 
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