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  • Just Action

    How to Challenge Segregation Enacted under the Color of Law

    by Leah Rothstein, Richard Rothstein ...
    The Color of Law brilliantly recounted how government at all levels created segregation. Just Action describes how we can begin to undo it.In his best-selling book The Color of Law, Richard Rothstein demolished the de facto segregation myth that black and white Americans live separately by choice, providing “the most forceful argument ever published on how federal, state, and local governments ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

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  • The Color of Law

    A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America

    by Richard Rothstein ...
    New York Times Bestseller • Notable Book of the Year • Editors' Choice SelectionOne of Bill Gates’ “Amazing Books” of the YearOne of Publishers Weekly’s 10 Best Books of the YearLonglisted for the National Book Award for NonfictionAn NPR Best Book of the YearWinner of the Hillman Prize for NonfictionGold Winner • California Book Award (Nonfiction)Finalist • Los Angeles Times Book Prize (History ... Read more

    $12.29 USD

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  • White House Burning

    The Founding Fathers, Our National Debt, and Why It Matters to You

    by Simon Johnson, James Kwak ...
    America is mired in debt—more than $30,000 for every man, woman, and child. Bitter fighting over deficits, taxes, and spending bedevils Washington, D.C., even as partisan gridlock has brought the government to the brink of default. Yet the more politicians on both sides of the aisle rant and the citizenry fumes, the more things seem to remain the same.In White House Burning, Simon Johnson and ... Read more

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  • The Vanishing Middle Class

    Prejudice and Power in a Dual Economy

    by Peter Temin ...
    Why the United States has developed an economy divided between rich and poor—and how racism helped bring this about.The United States is becoming a nation of rich and poor, with few families in the middle. In this book, MIT economist Peter Temin offers an illuminating way to look at the vanishing middle class. Temin argues that American history and politics, particularly slavery and its aftermath, ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

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  • The Occupy Handbook

    by Janet Byrne ...
    Analyzing the movement's deep-seated origins in questions that the country has sought too long to ignore, some of the greatest economic minds and most incisive cultural commentators - from Paul Krugman, Robin Wells, Michael Lewis, Robert Reich, Amy Goodman, Barbara Ehrenreich, Gillian Tett, Scott Turow, Bethany McLean, Brandon Adams, and Tyler Cowen to prominent labor leaders and young, cutting ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

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  • How the Other Half Banks

    Exclusion, Exploitation, and the Threat to Democracy

    by Mehrsa Baradaran ...
    The United States has two separate banking systems today—one serving the well-to-do and another exploiting everyone else. How the Other Half Banks contributes to the growing conversation on American inequality by highlighting one of its prime causes: unequal credit. Mehrsa Baradaran examines how a significant portion of the population, deserted by banks, is forced to wander through a Wild West of ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

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  • Remedy and Reaction

    The Peculiar American Struggle over Health Care Reform, Revised Edition

    by Paul Starr ...
    In no other country has health care served as such a volatile flashpoint of ideological conflict. America has endured a century of rancorous debate on health insurance, and despite the passage of legislation in 2010, the battle is not yet over. This book is a history of how and why the United States became so stubbornly different in health care, presented by an expert with unsurpassed knowledge of ... Read more

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  • Rollback

    Repealing Big Government Before the Coming Fiscal Collapse

    by Thomas E. Woods Jr. ...
    Thought the last financial crisis was scary? Just wait…it’s going to get worseAmerica is on the brink of financial collapse. Decades of political overpromising and underfunding have created a wave of debt that could swamp our already feeble economy. And the politicians’ favorite tricks-raising taxes, borrowing from foreign governments, and printing more money-will only make it worse. Only one ... Read more

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  • The Squandering of America

    How the Failure of Our Politics Undermines Our Prosperity

    by Robert Kuttner ...
    A passionate, articulate argument detailing how the United States political system has failed to adapt to the economic challenges of the late 20th and early 21st centuries.The American economy is in peril. It has fallen hostage to a casino of financial speculation, creating instability as well as inequality. Tens of millions of workers are vulnerable to layoffs and outsourcing, health care and ... Read more

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  • The Bonds of Inequality

    Debt and the Making of the American City

    by Destin Jenkins ...
    Indebtedness, like inequality, has become a ubiquitous condition in the United States. Yet few have probed American cities’ dependence on municipal debt or how the terms of municipal finance structure racial privileges, entrench spatial neglect, elide democratic input, and distribute wealth and power.In this passionate and deeply researched book, Destin Jenkins shows in vivid detail how, beyond ... Read more

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  • Social Insecurity

    401(k)s and the Retirement Crisis

    by James W. Russell ...
    **How 401(k)s have gutted retirement security, from charging exorbitant hidden fees to failing to replace the income of traditional pensionsNamed one of PW's Top 10 for Business & Economics**A retirement crisis is looming. In 2008, as the 401(k) fallout rippled across the country, horrified holders watched 25 percent of their funds evaporate overnight. Average 401(k) balances for those approaching ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The High Cost of Good Intentions

    A History of U.S. Federal Entitlement Programs

    by John F. Cogan ...
    Federal entitlement programs are strewn throughout the pages of U.S. history, springing from the noble purpose of assisting people who are destitute through no fault of their own. Yet as federal entitlement programs have grown, so too have their inefficiency and their cost. Neither tax revenues nor revenues generated by the national economy have been able to keep pace with their rising growth, ... Read more

    $24.69 USD