Evil geniuses : the unmaking of America : a recent history /
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Author / Creator: | Andersen, Kurt, 1954- author. |
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Edition: | First edition. |
Imprint: | New York : Random House, [2020] |
Description: | xxvii, 430 pages ; 25 cm |
Language: | English |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12457518 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Part 1. A Brief History of America
- 1. Land of the New: America from 1600 to 1865
- 2. Land of the New: An Economic History from the 1770s to the 1970s
- 3. Approaching Peak New: The 1960s
- Part 2. Turning Point
- 4. The 1970s: An Equal and Opposite Reaction
- 5. The 1970s: Liberalism Peaks and the Counterrevolution Begins
- 6. The 1970s: Building the Counter-Establishment
- 7. The 1970s: From a Bicentennial Pageant to a Presidency
- 8. The 1970s: Neoliberal Useful Idiots
- Part 3. Wrong Turn
- 9. The Reagan Revolution
- 10. Raw Deal What Happened in the 1980s Didn't Stay in the 1980s
- 11. The Rule of Law
- 12. The Deregulation Generation
- 13. The Culture of Greed Is Good
- 14. How Wall Street Ate America
- 15. Workers of the New World, You Lose
- 16. Insecurity Is a Feature, Not a Bug
- 17. Socially Liberal, Fiscally Conservative, Generally Complacent
- 18. The Permanent Reagan Revolution
- 19. The 1990s: Restrained and Reckless
- Part 4. Same Old Same Old
- 20. Rewind, Pause, Stop: The End of the New
- 21. The Politics of Nostalgia and Stagnation Since the 1990s
- 22. Ruthless Beats Reasonable
- 23. Winners and Losers in the Class War
- 24. American Exceptionalism
- Part 5. Make America New Again
- 25. Winners and Losers (So Far) in the Digital Revolution
- 26. How the Future Will Work
- 27. This Strategic Inflection Point
- 28. What Is to Be Done?
- 29. The Plague Year and Beyond
- Acknowledgments
- Bibliography
- Index