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008			171208s2018 nyu b 001 0 eng
010			_a 2017051857
020			_a9781524731632 (hardback)
020			_z9781524731649 (ebook)
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040			_aDLC _beng _erda _cDLC
050	0	0	_aHN59 _b.B75 2018
082	0	0	_a306.0973 _223
084			_aPOL028000 _aPOL024000 _aPOL003000 _2bisacsh
100	1		_aBrill, Steven, _d1950-
245	1	0	_aTailspin : _bthe people and forces behind America's fifty-year fall--and those fighting to reverse it / _cSteven Brill.
250			_aFirst edition.
264		1	_aNew York : _bAlfred A. Knopf, _c2018.
300			_a441 pages ; _c24 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
520			_a"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"-- _cProvided by publisher.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 349-416) and index.
651		0	_aUnited States _xSocial conditions _y1960-1980.
651		0	_aUnited States _xSocial conditions _y1980-
650		0	_aSocial change _zUnited States.
650		0	_aPolitical culture _zUnited States.
650		0	_aEquality _zUnited States.
650		0	_aDemocracy _zUnited States.
651		0	_aUnited States _xPolitics and government _y1945-1989.
651		0	_aUnited States _xPolitics and government _y1989-
650		7	_aPOLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / General. _2bisacsh
650		7	_aPOLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Economic Policy. _2bisacsh
650		7	_aPOLITICAL SCIENCE / Civics & Citizenship. _2bisacsh
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