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Pulitzer Prize winner Hedrick Smith’s new book is an extraordinary achievement, an eye-opening account of how, over the past four decades, the American Dream has been dismantled and we became two Americas. In his bestselling __The Russians,__ Smith took millions of readers inside the Soviet Union. In __The Power Game,__ he took us inside Washington’s corridors of power. Now Smith takes us across America to show how seismic changes, sparked by a sequence of landmark political and economic decisions, have transformed America. As only a veteran reporter can, Smith fits the puzzle together, starting with Lewis Powell’s provocative memo that triggered a political rebellion that dramatically altered the landscape of power from then until today. This is a book full of surprises and revelations—the accidental beginnings of the 401(k) plan, with disastrous economic consequences for many; the major policy changes that began under Jimmy Carter; how the New Economy disrupted America’s engine of shared prosperity, the “virtuous circle” of growth, and how America lost the title of “Land of Opportunity.” Smith documents the transfer of $6 trillion in middle-class wealth from homeowners to ban

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Author

Hedrick Smith; OverDrive, Inc

Publisher

Random House Trade Paperbacks; Random House Publishing Group

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9781400069668

Category

history

Subjects

Political Science, Science, Fiction

Rating

4.18 / 5 (458 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14