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"In 1947, Forbes magazine declared Lancaster, Ohio, the epitome of the all-American town. Today it is damaged, discouraged, and fighting for its future. In Glass house, journalist Brian Alexander uses the story of one town to show how seeds sown thirty-five years ago have sprouted to give us Trumpism, inequality, and an eroding national cohesion."--Jacket flap.
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The Child Thief volume 1
Publisher
Nightlight Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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America in 2105 is beset with mass inequality, poverty and increasingly large numbers of the poor. A fractured America ushers in an authoritarian government that promises to solve these problems by redistributing children born to the poor to be adopted by the rich. Robin, a single teen mother, fell within the scope of the scheme and lost her baby two years ago. A life of factory work doesn't provide much hope until she stumbles upon a group of misfits...
4) Deep Shadows
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The Child Thief volume 2
Publisher
Nightlight Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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After the night’s shocking events, Robin, Jace, and their team find themselves thrust into a race for their lives. Robin never could have imagined that things would go so wrong. Never could have dreamed that they would find what they found within that innocuous-looking building. And now it is too late: they have seen what they have seen, and there is no time to talk. No time to even think. Not with the caliber of people who are now on their...
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W.W. Norton & Co
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
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Today's most widely read economist challenges America to reclaim the values that made it great. Here he studies the past eighty years of American history, from the reforms that tamed the harsh inequality of the Gilded Age to the unraveling of that achievement and the reemergence of immense economic and political inequality since the 1970s. Seeking to understand both what happened to middle-class America and what it will take to achieve a "new New...
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Crown
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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"A progressive takedown of the uber-capitalist status quo that has enriched millionaires and billionaires at the expense of the working class, and a blueprint for what transformational change would actually look like. It's OK to be angry about capitalism. Reflecting on our turbulent times, Senator Bernie Sanders takes on the billionaire class and speaks blunt truths about our country's failure to address the destructive nature of a system that is...
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