Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer--and Turned Its Back on the Middle Class
- ISBN-10
- 1416588701
- ISBN-13
- 9781416588702
- Category
- Political Science
- Pages
- 357
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2010
- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster
- Authors
- Jacob S. Hacker, Paul Pierson
Description
Analyzes the growing divide between the incomes of the wealthy class and those of middle-income Americans, exonerating popular suspects to argue that the nation's political system promotes greed and under-representation.
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