America: What went wrong?

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"I would consider this article in the same league as the articles written by Thomas Paine which helped [launch] the first American Revolution; perhaps America: What Went Wrong? will help the processes of a necessary second revolution!' - Dávid W. Moyle, Oregon City, Ore. "I have been touting your sensational series all over the country. Wish I had written it-that's my highest compliment!" - Harrison E. Salisbury "It's the morning after in America... [Barlett and Steele's] work lays the foundation for a decade of American self-rediscovery." - The Miami Herald "After reading America: What Went Wrong? I cried. I felt I had just read the obituary of American business!' -A. Calvin Cooper, Langhorne, Pa. "It probably is the most complete and revealing piece of reporting since turn-of-the-century muckrakers shocked the nation with descriptions of inhuman working conditions and big city machines. [Barlett and Steele] can stand with Ida Tárbeli, Lincoln Steffens, and Upton Sinclair,... Tovább

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"I would consider this article in the same league as the articles written by Thomas Paine which helped [launch] the first American Revolution; perhaps America: What Went Wrong? will help the processes of a necessary second revolution!' - Dávid W. Moyle, Oregon City, Ore. "I have been touting your sensational series all over the country. Wish I had written it-that's my highest compliment!" - Harrison E. Salisbury "It's the morning after in America... [Barlett and Steele's] work lays the foundation for a decade of American self-rediscovery." - The Miami Herald "After reading America: What Went Wrong? I cried. I felt I had just read the obituary of American business!' -A. Calvin Cooper, Langhorne, Pa. "It probably is the most complete and revealing piece of reporting since turn-of-the-century muckrakers shocked the nation with descriptions of inhuman working conditions and big city machines. [Barlett and Steele] can stand with Ida Tárbeli, Lincoln Steffens, and Upton Sinclair, crusaders of that earlier era." -Maine Sunday Telegram America: What Went Wrong? is a solid indictment of how the rulemakers in Washington and the dealmakers on Wall Street have changed the rules of the game to favor the privileged, the powerful, and the influential - at the expense of everyone else. Expanding on an unforgettable series of articles in the Philadelphia Inquirer, this book is the culmination of two years of research by Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporters Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele. Assembling over 100,000 pages of documents and interviewing men and women at all levels of the work force across the nation, Barlett and Steele have managed to teli the story we all suspected in language so clear - and graphics so dramatic - that every reader will see how the lives of all of us have been touched by public acts and priváté greed. America: What Went Wrong? is a gripping portrayal of the painful dismantling of the American middle class. Vissza