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For more than thirty years, Kevin Phillips'insight into American politics and economics has helped to make history as well as record it. His bestselling books, including 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 d

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Author

Kevin Phillips, Kevin P. Phillips

Publisher

Broadway; Broadway Books

Published

2002

Language

EN

ISBN

9780767911511

Category

history

Subjects

Political Science, Finance, Economics

Rating

3.92 / 5 (64 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14