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1) Second class: how the elites betrayed America's working men and women

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Ungar-Sargon, Batya

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English

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Book, eBook, Kindle

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"America has broken its contract with its laboring class. So, how do we get back to the American Dream? How do we once again become the land of opportunity, the promised land where hard work and commitment to family are enough to protect you from poverty? It's not that hard actually. All it would take, as this book illustrates, is for those in power to once again respect the dignity of work-and the American worker"-- Provided by publisher.

2) Our Kind of People: Inside America's Black Upper Class

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Graham, Lawrence Otis

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English

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eBook, Kindle, eAudiobook, CD audio book

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Now a TV series on FOX starring Morris Chestnut, Yaya DaCosta, Nadine Ellis, and Joe Morton.

"Fascinating. . . . [Graham] has made a major contribution both to African-American studies and the larger American picture." —New York Times

Debutante cotillions. Million-dollar homes. Summers in Martha's Vineyard. Membership in the Links, Jack & Jill, Deltas, Boule, and AKAs. An obsession with the

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3) Top drawer: American high society from the Gilded Age to the Roaring Twenties

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Cable, Mary

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English

4) The age of acquiescence: the life and death of American resistance to organized wealth and power

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Fraser, Steve

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English

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"From the American Revolution through the Civil Rights movement, Americans have long mobilized against political, social, and economic privilege. Hierarchies based on inheritance, wealth, and political preferment were treated as obnoxious and a threat to democracy. Mass movements envisioned a new world supplanting dog-eat-dog capitalism. But over the last half-century that political will and cultural imagination have vanished. Why? THE AGE OF ACQUIESCENCE...