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by: Kevin P. Phillips See Larger Image Used Price: $0.01 Collectible Price: $11.00 Third Party New Price: $5.50 Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 339.22097309048 EAN: 9780060973964 ISBN: 006097396X Label: Harpercollins Manufacturer: Harpercollins Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 288 Publication Date: 1991-06 Publisher: Harpercollins Sales Rank: 687147 Studio: Harpercollins Related Items: Bad Money: Reckless Finance, Failed Politics, and the Global Crisis of American Capitalism Wealth and Democracy: A Political History of the American Rich American Theocracy: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil, and Borrowed Money in the 21stCentury Arrogant Capital: Washington, Wall Street, and the Frustration of American Politics American Dynasty: Aristocracy, Fortune, and the Politics of Deceit in the House of Bush see more Editorial Review: Product Description: The enormous concentration of wealth in the United States during the 1980s--most of it in the hands of the top 1% of the population--will provoke what Phillips calls a watershed change in American politics. His masterly analysis portrays the public's growing concern over this unequal distribution of wealth and the Republican policies that enhanced the imbalance. A national bestseller in hardcover. Customer Reviews Average Rating: Rating: - Phillips hadn't yet realized the pernicious impacts resulting from a Fed dominated by Wall Street speculators Phillips wrote this book in 1990.This allows a reader to compare it with later books that dealt with the same problem ,such as " Boiling Point " in 1993 and " Arrogant Capital " in 1994.The first point that Phillips demonstrates overwhelmingly was that the Reagan tax cuts were primarily aimed at increasing the wealth and political power of the Wall Street speculators and investment banks like Bear Stearns,Merrill Lynch,Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley,Lehman Brothers,J.P. Morgan,Credit Suisse,Deutsche ... Read More Rating: - A Example of Academics Overshadowing Message I was excited to find this book based on the tittle and book description, mainly because I felt I was going to get a book of facts to bolster my already formed opinions. Well the book did provide facts, lots of facts sometimes not in the best order, but facts none the less. What the author and publisher failed to realize is that in the method the book was written the average reader would find it almost impossible to plod through the text. I had a college statistics professor that was Asian with a very ... Read More Rating: - The conservatives exposed The myths (or many of them)of the right are given full exposure in this fine book. Well researched and well written, it is a good primer on the delusions of the privledged class (just read some of the other reviews on this page). Over all a significant contribution to the new analysis of conservative revisionism. Rating: - nothing new here Exploiting class envy is as old as civilization itself,and this book is another exercise in just that.I don't question the validity of Mr. Phillips arguments or stasistics.Sure the wealthier get wealthier or at least maintain their wealth from generation to generation(barring catastrophe)but that is because when you are talking in terms of millions of dollars money automatically makes itself grow.Someone worth $5,000,000 this year will with safe,predictable,long-term investments see an increase in their wealth ... Read More Rating: - Flawed Keynesian Logic Utilized to Indict 'Reaganomics' This book is down right distortive of economic history and the 1980's... Overall, the poor did not get poorer in the 1980's, but quite the opposite. This book is essentially more tired and disproven Keynesian-Socialist views on economics, for people who want to go back to the policies of the 1970's-the era of double-digit inflation and 21% interest rates. If you want to narrow any imbalance of wealth- do away with the Federal Reserve system, which robs the poor and middle class of their purchasing power ... Read More see more Browse for similar items by category: Economics - Business & Investing - Subjects - Books - Economic Policy & Development Economics - Business & Investing - Subjects - Books - Macroeconomics Business & Investing - Subjects - Books - General Business & Investing - Subjects - Books - General AAS Politics - Nonfiction - Subjects - Books - U.S.