| #599585 in Books | 2016-04-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 6.20 x1.20 x9.00l,.0 | File type: PDF | 416 pages||6 of 6 people found the following review helpful.| LET'S BE HONEST ABOUT HOW WE GOT HERE|By Thomas Owen|This is a book that deserves a wide reading. The sheer amount of date, information, facts and graphs make it worth having on your shelf as a reference. Even if your disagree with the basic premise, you have to confront the facts of the matter: records of meetings, public statements by political leaders, congressional reco|||"This is a fascinating book on the politics of racial and social inequality in the United States, from the time of Mad Men until the Obama years. Power has turned upside down at the Oval office, but what happened at the bottom? A must-read." --Thomas Piketty,
By many measures--commonsensical or statistical--the United States has not been more divided politically or economically in the last hundred years than it is now. How have we gone from the striking bipartisan cooperation and relative economic equality of the war years and post-war period to the extreme inequality and savage partisan divisions of today?
In this sweeping look at American politics from the Depression to the present, Doug McAdam and Karina Kloos argu...
You easily download any file type for your device.Deeply Divided: Racial Politics and Social Movements in Postwar America | Doug McAdam, Karina Kloos. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.
