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092			_a330.973 _bL584
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100	1		_aLeonhardt, David, _d1973- _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aOurs was the shining future : _bthe story of the American dream / _cDavid Leonhardt.
250			_aFirst edition.
264		1	_aNew York : _bRandom House, _c[2023]
300			_axxxiv, 492 pages : _billustrations ; _c25 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aIntroduction -- Part one: The rise. A union town -- Trustees of the common welfare -- Sacrifice for the long term -- Enforcing racial democracy -- Part two: The fall. The young intelligentsia -- The problem of crime -- A new way of looking at the world -- Clear the track for business -- This little village called America -- Whence shall come our experts? -- Conclusion.
520			_a"Two decades into the twenty-first century, the stagnation of living standards has become the defining trend of American life. Life expectancy has declined, economic inequality has soared, and, after some progress, the Black-white wage gap is once again as large as it was in the 1950s. How did this happen in the world's most powerful country? And what happened to the "American dream"--the promise of a happier, healthier, more prosperous future--which was once such an inextricable part of our national identity? Drawing on decades of writing about the economy for The New York Times, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer David Leonhardt examines the past century of American history, from the Great Depression to today's Great Stagnation, in search of an answer. To make sense of the rise and subsequent fall of the American dream, Leonhardt tells the story of the modern American economy as an ongoing battle between two competing forms of capitalism: one that envisions prosperity for most, and one that serves the individual and favors the wealthy. In vivid prose, Ours Was the Shining Future traces how democratic capitalism flourished to make the American dream possible, until the latter decades of the twentieth century when, bit by bit, the dream was corrupted to serve only the privileged few"-- _cProvided by publisher.
650		0	_aAmerican Dream. _9170430
651		0	_aUnited States _xEconomic conditions _y20th century. _9109436
651		0	_aUnited States _xEconomic conditions _y21st century. _999018
651		0	_aUnited States _xSocial conditions _y20th century. _985629
651		0	_aUnited States _xSocial conditions _y21st century. _984694
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