American mojo, lost and found : restoring our middle class before the world blows by

Summary: Argues that America's might lies in its middle class and calls for a focused directive to reinvigorate the class in order to return the nation to greatness.

Item details

ISBN: 9781630269234
ISBN: 1630269239
ISBN: 9781681621234
ISBN: 1681621231
Physical Description: print
xxx, 433 pages ; 24 cm
Publisher: Nashville, Tennessee : Turner, [2015]

Contents / Notes

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 385-423) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Lost. Paradise lost: misplacing America's middle class, the beginning ; The invasion: a postwar middle-class miracle ; Chocolate milk: first cracks in the façade ; Dream stealer: the uninvited demand their rights ; Love/Haight: youth in revolt ; The three uglies: Nixon's hydra of economic woes ; Flying the hump: surviving the Republican wreck ; Tall Paul and the tamers: Reagan reconsidered -- Found. The one percent problem: not the invisible hand, but the invisible handshake ; The one percent solution: a time for wealth to lead the charge ; The renaissance: living a dream deferred ; The zone: confronting dragons of poverty and winning ; The march of the black middle class: return of economic segregation ; American matriarchy: a new engine of the middle class ; The Latino generation: an American super-minority ; G, myself, and I: America's place in global manufacture ; La grippe: the United States of underemployment ; Back to work: the new abnormal of job creation ; Middle earth: the world's exploding middle class ; The cyclone: high winds in the developing world ; America's choice: stay the course or restore our middle class by immersion in the emerging world ; Mojo found: how you change everything.