Ours Was the Shining Future
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What’s it about?
A sweeping history of the American Dream's rise and fall, revealing how deliberate political choices created—and then destroyed—an era of shared prosperity, and what we can learn from it.
You’ll learn
- How the postwar social contract built the middle class
- Why unions were the engine of shared prosperity
- The ideological shift that broke the wage-productivity link
- Lessons for rebuilding a fairer economy today