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Pulitzer Prize victor Hedrick Smith's new booklet is an incredible success, an eye-opening bank account of how, over the past four decades, the American Desire has been dismantled and we became two Americas. In his best-selling The Russians, Smith required millions of viewers inside the Soviet Union. In The Vitality Game, he required us inside Washington's corridors of electric power. Now Smith requires us across America showing how seismic changes, sparked with a sequence of landmark political and economic decisions, have changed America. As only a veteran reporter can, Smith meets the puzzle jointly, you start with Lewis Powell's provocative memo that induced a political rebellion that considerably altered the scenery of electric power from then until today. That is a book filled with surprises and revelations - the accidental beginnings of the 401(k) plan, with disastrous economic consequences for many; the major coverage changes that began under Jimmy Carter; how the New Economy disrupted America's engine of shared wealth, the "virtuous group" of expansion, and how America lost the subject of "Land of Opportunity". Smith documents the copy of $6 trillion in middle-class wealth from homeowners to finance institutions even before the housing boom went bust, and how the U.S. coverage tilt favoring the rich is stunting America's economic growth. This book is vital reading for all those who want to understand America today, or why average People in the usa are battling to keep afloat. Smith uncovers how pivotal laws and guidelines were altered as the open public wasn't looking, how Congress often ignores public opinion, why moderate politicians got shoved to the sidelines, and how Wall Road often wins politically by selecting over 1,400 previous government officials as lobbyists.
