Neiman, Garrett
Summary: "It's no secret that our country has a serious problem when it comes to wealth inequality - and systemic racism and patriarchy have only exacerbated the advantages of wealthy white men. Over the past three decades, America's richest white men have only become richer, while those suffering in poverty have only gotten poorer. The divide may seem too great to bridge, but Rich White Men exposes the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Legacy Lit, Hachette Books 2023
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 305.5 NEISmiley, Tavis
Summary: Presents an analysis of the recent increase of poverty in the United States, even among the middle class, describing twelve steps that can be undertaken to give the poor more equitable access to housing, education, and health care.
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Publisher / Publication Date: SmileyBooks 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 339.22 SMILee, Dwight R.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperBusiness 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 332.024 LEEDe Graaf, John.
Summary: Explores the origins, causes, and symptoms of Affluenza, society's compulsive desire to acquire, and discusses such treatment as strengthening immunity against advertising and minimizing the side-effects of over-consumption.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berrett-Koehler Publishers 2001
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Summary: The severe economic downturn has been blamed on many things: deregulation, derivatives, greedy borrowers, negligent lenders. But could there be a deeper problem that is so severe, so long-lasting, and so dangerous that it makes these problems look minor? Could we be facing an existential challenge to the promise of America? Inequality has reached historical highs. Throughout human history, this...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2009
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Summary: Anderson Cooper chronicles the rise and fall of a legendary American dynasty--his mother's family--the Vanderbilts.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Books 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.5234 PHITaylor, Jim
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Publisher / Publication Date: American Management Association 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 332.024 TAYTyler, George R.
Summary: A sobering assessment of the American economy argues that voter choices are behind most current problems while citing the more effective examples of other countries.
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Publisher / Publication Date: BenBella Books, Inc. 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 330.973 TYLWhybrow, Peter C.
Summary: An analysis of the American consumer culture cites modern statistics in obesity, depression, and panic disorders, drawing on detailed case studies to explain how today's affluent society is directly related to key social and medical issues.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Co. 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 301 WHYAndersen, Kurt
Summary: "Americans have disabled the government's ability to solve even basic problems, making us vulnerable to the most dangerous demagogue ever to pretend to the White House. Kurt Andersen shows how the masterminds of the economic right rode an unprecedented wave of nostalgia by dressing up their harsh new rich-get-richer system in patriotic old-time drag, making it their mission to take over the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2020
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Summary: "A trenchant analysis of how the wealthiest 9.9 percent of Americans -- those just below the tip of the wealth pyramid -- have exacerbated the growing inequality in our country and distorted our social values"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.5 STEFord, Clyde W.
Summary: "Of Blood and Sweat: Black Lives and the Genesis of White Power and Wealth tells the story of how Black lives and labor created White power and wealth in agriculture, politics, jurisprudence, law enforcement, culture, medicine, financial services, and other fields. Through the lives of individual Black men and women a deeper understanding unravels of the role Blacks played, directly and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amistad 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.3 FORMetzl, Jonathan
Summary: "With the rise of the Tea Party and the election of Donald Trump, many middle- and lower-income white Americans threw their support behind conservative politicians who pledged to make life great again for people like them. But as Dying of Whiteness shows, the right-wing policies that resulted from this white backlash put these voters' very health at risk--and, in the end, threaten everyone's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.1 METThomas, William G.
Summary: The story of the longest and most complex legal challenge to slavery in American history, in which a number of enslaved families challenged their bondage in court.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2020
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Summary: "During her junior year at Poplar Grove High School, Aria found herself sliding into a worsening depression. She had what she described as the perfect life, including fabulous vacations, her dream car, and more importantly, a big loving family, close friends, and a boyfriend she adored, but daily life had become unbearable. Though she knew how badly her suicide would hurt everyone around her,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2024
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Summary: "This book documents the decline of white-working class lives over the last half-century and examines the social and economic forces that have slowly made these lives more difficult. Case and Deaton argue that market and political power in the United States have moved away from labor towards capital-as unions have weakened and politics have become more favorable to business, corporations have...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2020