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  1. Who stole the American dream?
    Autor*in: Smith, Hedrick
    Erschienen: 2012
    Verlag:  Random House, New York

    Recounts how the American dream has been dismantled over the past forty years by legislative, electoral, and corporate decisions that have compromised the middle class and minimized individual economic and political power mehr

    Universitätsbibliothek Erlangen-Nürnberg, Hauptbibliothek
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    Recounts how the American dream has been dismantled over the past forty years by legislative, electoral, and corporate decisions that have compromised the middle class and minimized individual economic and political power

     

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    Quelle: Verbundkataloge
    Sprache: Englisch
    Medientyp: Buch (Monographie)
    Auflage/Ausgabe: 1st ed.
    Schlagworte: Political culture / United States / History / 20th century; Political culture / United States / History / 21st century; Polarization (Social sciences) / United States; Middle class / United States / Economic conditions; Middle class / Political activity / United States; Public interest / United States; Income distribution / United States; Divided government / United States; Geschichte; Politik; Wirtschaft; Gesellschaft; Polarisierung; American dream
    Umfang: xxxi, 557 p., 24 cm
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    Includes bibliographical references (p. [527]-538) and index

    The challenge from within -- Power shift. The business rebellion : the power shift that changed American history ; The pivotal Congress : Jimmy Carter and 1977-78 Democrats ; Middle-class power : how citizen action worked before the power shift ; Middle-class prosperity : how "the virtuous circle" worked before the new economy -- Dismantling the dream. The new economy of the 1990s : the wedge economics that split America ; The stolen dream : from middle-class to the new poor ; The great burden shift : funding your own safety net, crippled by debt ; The wealth gap : the economics "of the 1%, by the 1%, for the 1%" -- Unequal democracy. The new 2000s power game : why Congress often ignores public opinion ; The Washington-Wall Street symbiosis : the inside track of "the money monopoly" -- Middle-class squeeze. Broken promises : bankrupting middle-class pensions ; 401(K)'s : do-it-yourself : can you really afford to retire? ; Housing heist : prime targets : the solid middle class ; The great wealth shift : how the banks eroded middle-class savings ; Offshoring the dream : the Wal-Mart trail to China ; Hollowing out high-end jobs : IBM : shifting the knowledge economy to India ; The skills gap myth : importing IT workers costs masses of U.S. jobs -- Obstacles to a fix. The missing middle : how gridlock adds to the wealth gap ; The rise of the radical right, 1964-2010 : assault on the middle-class safety net ; The high cost of imperial overstretch : how the U.S. global footprint hurts the middle class -- Challenge and response. Reclaiming the dream : a domestic Marshall plan : a ten-step strategy ; Politics : a grassroots response : reviving the moderate center and middle-class power -- Appendix. Stolen dream timeline : key events, trends, and turning points, 1948-2012

  2. The mighty wurlitzer
    how the CIA played America
    Autor*in: Wilford, Hugh
    Erschienen: 2008
    Verlag:  Harvard Univ. Press, Cambridge, Mass. [u.a.]

    Freie Universität Berlin, Universitätsbibliothek
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    Quelle: Philologische Bibliothek, FU Berlin
    Sprache: Englisch
    Medientyp: Buch (Monographie)
    ISBN: 9780674026810; 9780674032569
    Schlagworte: Intelligence service / United States; Cold War; Political culture / United States / History / 20th century; Public-private sector cooperation / United States / History / 20th century; Geschichte; Politik; Cold War; Intelligence service; Political culture; Public-private sector cooperation; Politische Kultur; Ost-West-Konflikt; Einflussnahme; Kommunismus <Motiv>
    Umfang: XIV, 342, [16] S., Ill.
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    Includes bibliographical references and index

    Introduction -- Innocents' clubs : the origins of the CIA front -- Secret army : emigres -- AFL-CIA : labor -- A deep sickness in New York : intellectuals -- The cultural cold war : writers, artists, musicians, filmmakers -- The CIA on campus : students -- The truth shall make you free : women -- Saving the world : Catholics -- Into Africa : African Americans -- Things fall apart : journalists -- Conclusion

  3. The mighty wurlitzer
    how the CIA played America
    Autor*in: Wilford, Hugh
    Erschienen: 2008
    Verlag:  Harvard Univ. Press, Cambridge, Mass. [u.a.]

    Universitätsbibliothek Augsburg
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    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
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    Universitätsbibliothek der LMU München
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    Quelle: Verbundkataloge
    Sprache: Englisch
    Medientyp: Buch (Monographie)
    ISBN: 9780674026810; 9780674032569
    Schlagworte: Intelligence service / United States; Cold War; Political culture / United States / History / 20th century; Public-private sector cooperation / United States / History / 20th century; Geschichte; Politik; Cold War; Intelligence service; Political culture; Public-private sector cooperation; Politische Kultur; Ost-West-Konflikt; Einflussnahme; Kommunismus <Motiv>
    Umfang: XIV, 342, [16] S., Ill.
    Bemerkung(en):

    Includes bibliographical references and index

    Introduction -- Innocents' clubs : the origins of the CIA front -- Secret army : emigres -- AFL-CIA : labor -- A deep sickness in New York : intellectuals -- The cultural cold war : writers, artists, musicians, filmmakers -- The CIA on campus : students -- The truth shall make you free : women -- Saving the world : Catholics -- Into Africa : African Americans -- Things fall apart : journalists -- Conclusion