Tailspin : the people and forces behind America's fifty-year fall--and those fighting to reverse it
by Brill, Steven, 1950- (Author)
Summary
"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... Full description
- The protected and the unprotected
- Meritocracy becomes the new aristocracy
- Casino country
- The greening of the First Amendment
- Making markets efficient
- and marginalizing those left behind
- "Lip service" for America's workers
- Dysfunctional democracy
- Moat nation
- Why nothing works
- Broken
- Protecting the most unprotected
- Storming the moats.