Declining Fortunes
The Withering of the American Dream
Published on 12. May 1994
Book
Paperback/Softback
288 pages
978-0-465-01594-8 (ISBN)
Description
American society has reneged on its promise to the baby-boom generation. Young people for the first time find themselves unable to duplicate, let alone surpass, their own parents standard of living. Declining Fortunes sheds new light on a driving issue of our day: downward mobility and the politics of resentment.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 236 mm
Width: 156 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-465-01594-8 (9780465015948)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Content
The End of Entitlement Winners and Losers in the Eighties and Nineties The Making of the Boomers The Problem of the Moral Mother The Spoiled Generation Illegitimate Elites and the Parasitic Underclass The Fractured Generation The Politics of Generational Division