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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.]]> 2002 3 0 false Sun Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2002 Tue May 06 20:18:13 -0700 2008 Thu Feb 12 04:58:25 -0800 2009 It got me hot.
This contains Reams of data of cycles of economic periods of the mercantile states of the west since the Renaissance but focusing of course on America and it's cycles in economic boost-and-bum.
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http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1120178.Wealth_and_Democracy_A_Political_History_of_the_American_Rich 3.71 125 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.]]> 2002 4 0 false Mon Jan 21 09:02:33 -0800 2008 Mon Jan 21 09:57:57 -0800 2008 35910660 1644349 111917 0767905342 9780767905343 19 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171654301m/111917.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171654301s/111917.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/111917.Wealth_and_Democracy_A_Political_History_of_the_American_Rich 3.71 125 --Gregory McNamee]]> 2002 4 0 false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004 Tue Oct 21 21:45:16 -0700 2008 Thu Nov 06 20:28:43 -0800 2008 5517783 258844 1120178 0767905334 9780767905336 4 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1181154973m/1120178.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1181154973s/1120178.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1120178.Wealth_and_Democracy_A_Political_History_of_the_American_Rich 3.71 125 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.]]> 2002 0 0 false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sat Sep 01 23:53:54 -0700 2007 Thu Dec 17 08:22:00 -0800 2009 3273594 196037 1120178 0767905334 9780767905336 4 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1181154973m/1120178.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1181154973s/1120178.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1120178.Wealth_and_Democracy_A_Political_History_of_the_American_Rich 3.71 125 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.]]> 2002 0 0 false Thu Jul 19 11:03:23 -0700 2007 Thu Jul 19 11:03:23 -0700 2007 21858227 791437 111917 0767905342 9780767905343 19 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171654301m/111917.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171654301s/111917.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/111917.Wealth_and_Democracy_A_Political_History_of_the_American_Rich 3.71 125 --Gregory McNamee]]> 2002 3 0 false Sun Jun 22 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu May 08 09:50:01 -0700 2008 Sun Jun 22 09:52:21 -0700 2008 18002882 1001379 111917 0767905342 9780767905343 19 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171654301m/111917.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171654301s/111917.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/111917.Wealth_and_Democracy_A_Political_History_of_the_American_Rich 3.71 125 --Gregory McNamee]]> 2002 2 0 false Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Mar 18 07:09:35 -0700 2008 Wed Oct 29 19:43:03 -0700 2008 long read, had to grind out finish.
but educational.
growing gap btwn rich and poor = bad.
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