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  • The Education Myth

    How Human Capital Trumped Social Democracy

    de Jon Shelton ...
    Series series Histories of American Education
    The Education Myth questions the idea that education represents the best, if not the only, way for Americans to access economic opportunity. As Jon Shelton shows, linking education to economic well-being was not politically inevitable. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, for instance, public education was championed as a way to help citizens learn how to participate in a democracy. By the ... Leer más

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  • Public Workers in Service of America

    A Reader

    Series series Working Class in American History
    From white-collar executives to mail carriers, public workers meet the needs of the entire nation. Frederick W. Gooding Jr. and Eric S. Yellin edit a collection of new research on this understudied workforce. Part One begins in the late nineteenth- and early twentieth century to explore how questions of race, class, and gender shaped public workers, their workplaces, and their place in American ... Leer más

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  • Teacher Strike!

    Public Education and the Making of a New American Political Order

    de Jon Shelton ...
    Series series Working Class in American History
    A wave of teacher strikes in the 1960s and 1970s roiled urban communities. Jon Shelton illuminates how this tumultuous era helped shatter the liberal-labor coalition and opened the door to the neoliberal challenge at the heart of urban education today.As Shelton shows, many working- and middle-class whites sided with corporate interests in seeing themselves as society's only legitimate, productive ... Leer más

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    The Businessmen's Crusade Against the New Deal

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  • The Polarizers

    Postwar Architects of Our Partisan Era

    de Sam Rosenfeld ...
    "Rosenfeld's insightful study of the development of political parties since World War II is highly instructive for our current moment." — Kirkus ReviewsEven in this most partisan and dysfunctional of eras, we can all agree on one thing: Washington is broken. Politicians take increasingly inflexible and extreme positions, leading to gridlock, partisan warfare, and the sense that our seats of ... Leer más

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  • The Choice We Face

    How Segregation, Race, and Power Have Shaped America's Most Controversial Education Reform Movement

    de Jon Hale ...
    A comprehensive history of school choice in the US, from its birth in the 1950s as the most effective weapon to oppose integration to its lasting impact in reshaping the public education system today.Most Americans today see school choice as their inalienable right. In The Choice We Face, scholar Jon Hale reveals what most fail to see: school choice is grounded in a complex history of race, ... Leer más

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  • Strike Back

    Using the Militant Tactics of Labor's Past to Reignite Public Sector Unionism Today

    de Joe Burns ...
    During the 1960s and 1970s, teachers, sanitation workers and many other public employees rose up to demand collective bargaining rights in one of the greatest upsurges in labor history. These workers were able to transform the nature of public employment, winning union recognition for millions and ultimately forcing reluctant politicians to pass laws allowing for collective bargaining and even the ... Leer más

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  • Let them Eat Tweets

    How the Right Rules in an Age of Extreme Inequality

    A New York Times Editors’ ChoiceAn “essential” (Jane Mayer) account of the dangerous marriage of plutocratic economic priorities and right-wing populist appeals — and how it threatens the pillars of American democracy.In Let Them Eat Tweets, best-selling political scientists Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson argue that despite the rhetoric of Donald Trump, Josh Hawley, and other right-wing ... Leer más

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  • Democracy in Chains

    The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America

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  • Myth America

    Historians Take On the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past

    **In this instant New York Times bestseller, America’s top historians set the record straight on the most pernicious myths about our nation’s past“Outstanding… Wonderfully accessible.” —Washington Post**The United States is in the grip of a crisis of bad history. Distortions of the past promoted in the conservative media have led large numbers of Americans to believe in fictions over facts, making ... Leer más

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  • American Amnesia

    How the War on Government Led Us to Forget What Made America Prosper

    A “provocative” (Kirkus Reviews), timely, and topical work that examines what’s good for American business and what’s good for Americans—and why those interests are misaligned.In American Amnesia, bestselling political scientists Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson trace the economic and political history of the United States over the last century and show how a viable mixed economy has long been the ... Leer más

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  • Black and Blue

    African Americans, the Labor Movement, and the Decline of the Democratic Party

    de Paul Frymer ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in American Politics
    In the 1930s, fewer than one in one hundred U.S. labor union members were African American. By 1980, the figure was more than one in five. Black and Blue explores the politics and history that led to this dramatic integration of organized labor. In the process, the book tells a broader story about how the Democratic Party unintentionally sowed the seeds of labor's decline.The labor and civil ... Leer más

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