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Wealth and Democracy - by Kevin Phillips (Paperback)

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  • For more than thirty years, Kevin Phillips' insight into American politics and economics has helped to make history as well as record it.
  • Connecticut Book Awards (Nonfiction) 2003 4th Winner
  • About the Author: KEVIN PHILLIPS has been a political and economic commentator for more than three decades.
  • 496 Pages
  • History, United States

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About the Book



The latest runaway bestseller from Phillips gives readers a major history of big money and political power in America--and an uncannily timely report on why this unholy alliance may lead to widespread corruption.



Book Synopsis



For more than thirty years, Kevin Phillips' insight into American politics and economics has helped to make history as well as record it. His bestselling books, including The Emerging Republican Majority (1969) and The Politics of Rich and Poor (1990), have influenced presidential campaigns and changed the way America sees itself. Widely acknowledging Phillips as one of the nation's most perceptive thinkers, reviewers have called him a latter-day Nostradamus and our "modern Thomas Paine." Now, in the first major book of its kind since the 1930s, he turns his attention to the United States' history of great wealth and power, a sweeping cavalcade from the American Revolution to what he calls "the Second Gilded Age" at the turn of the twenty-first century.

The Second Gilded Age has been staggering enough in its concentration of wealth to dwarf the original Gilded Age a hundred years earlier. However, the tech crash and then the horrible events of September 11, 2001, pointed out that great riches are as vulnerable as they have ever been. In Wealth and Democracy, Kevin Phillips charts the ongoing American saga of great wealth-how it has been accumulated, its shifting sources, and its ups and downs over more than two centuries. He explores how the rich and politically powerful have frequently worked together to create or perpetuate privilege, often at the expense of the national interest and usually at the expense of the middle and lower classes.

With intriguing chapters on history and bold analysis of present-day America, Phillips illuminates the dangerous politics that go with excessive concentration of wealth. Profiling wealthy Americans-from Astor to Carnegie and Rockefeller to contemporary wealth holders-Phillips provides fascinating details about the peculiarly American ways of becoming and staying a multimillionaire. He exposes the subtle corruption spawned by a money culture and financial power, evident in economic philosophy, tax favoritism, and selective bailouts in the name of free enterprise, economic stimulus, and national security.

Finally, Wealth and Democracy turns to the history of Britain and other leading world economic powers to examine the symptoms that signaled their declines-speculative finance, mounting international debt, record wealth, income polarization, and disgruntled politics-signs that we recognize in America at the start of the twenty-first century. In a time of national crisis, Phillips worries that the growing parallels suggest the tide may already be turning for us all.



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A brave book....it will outlast most of the cant that passes as political discourse today, and we will be the better for it.

With its copious lists of big money, its glimpses of Palm Beach and Greenwich, its chronicle of the rise of the great family fortunes, [Wealth and Democracy] is fascinating to read.



About the Author



KEVIN PHILLIPS has been a political and economic commentator for more than three decades. He is currently a regular contributor to the Los Angeles Times and National Public Radio, and also writes for Harper's Magazine and Time. The author of nine other books, most recently The Cousins' Wars, he lives in Litchfield, Connecticut.
Dimensions (Overall): 9.26 Inches (H) x 6.16 Inches (W) x 1.08 Inches (D)
Weight: 1.07 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 496
Genre: History
Sub-Genre: United States
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY)
Theme: 21st Century
Format: Paperback
Author: Kevin Phillips
Language: English
Street Date: April 8, 2003
TCIN: 91149589
UPC: 9780767905343
Item Number (DPCI): 247-08-4028
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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