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The Rich Don't Always Win [1]
['Barbara Ehrenreich', 'Author Of Nickel', 'Chuck Collins', 'Institute For Policy Studies', 'Author Of To', 'How Wealth Inequality Is Wrecking The World', 'What We Can Do About It', 'Jim Hightower', 'National Radio Commentator', 'New York Times Best-Selling Author']
Date: 2023-09
Polls now show that two-thirds of Americans believe that the nation's enormous wealth ought to be "distributed more evenly." But almost as many Americans—well over half—feel that protests against inequality will ultimately have "little impact." The rich, millions of us believe, always get their way.
Except they don't.
A century ago, the United States hosted a super-rich even more domineering than ours today. Yet fifty years later, that super-rich had almost entirely disappeared. Their majestic mansions and estates had become museums and college campuses, and America had become a vibrant, mass middle class nation, the first and finest the world had ever seen.
Americans today ought to be taking no small inspiration from this stunning change. After all, if our forbearers successfully beat back grand fortune, why can't we? But this transformation is inspiring virtually no one. Why? Because the story behind it has remained almost totally unknown, until now.
Sam Pizzigati's lively popular history speaks directly to the political hopelessness so many Americans feel. By tracing how average Americans took down plutocracy over the first half of the 20th Century—and how plutocracy came back—The Rich Don't Always Win outfits the 99% with a deeper understanding of what we need to do to get the United States back on track to the American dream.
An excerpt from The Rich Don't Always Win can be viewed here.
The Rich Don't Always Win Sam Pizzigati
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