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More equal than others : America from Nixon to the new century / Godfrey Hodgson

Hodgson, Godfrey [Verfasser]

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2004

Birmingham, AL, USA : EBSCO Industries, Inc.

1 Online-Ressource (xxiii, 379 pages)

Politics and society in twentieth-century America

Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-359) and index

978-1-4008-2595-0 ; 1-4008-2595-4 ; 0-691-11788-8

MS 1330

 

USA  Politik  Wirtschaftsentwicklung  Technischer Fortschritt  Soziale Ungleichheit  Geschichte 

During the past quarter century, free-market capitalism was recognized not merely as a successful system of wealth creation, but as the key determinant of the health of political and cultural democracy. Now, renowned British journalist and historian Godfrey Hodgson takes aim at this popular view in a book that promises to become one of the most important political histories of our time. More Equal Than Others looks back on twenty-five years of what Hodgson calls "the conservative ascendancy" in America, demonstrating how it has come to dominate American politics. Hodgson disputes the notion tha.