{"product_id":"evil-geniuses-book-kurt-andersen-9781984801340","title":"Evil Geniuses","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES \u003c\/i\u003eBESTSELLER - When did America give up on fairness? The author of \u003ci\u003eFantasyland\u003c\/i\u003e tells the epic history of how America decided that big business gets whatever it wants, only the rich get richer, and nothing should ever change--and charts a way back to the future.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eEssential, absorbing . . . a graceful, authoritative guide . . . a radicalized moderate's moderate case for radical change.--\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDuring the twentieth century, America managed to make its economic and social systems both more and more fair and more and more prosperous. A huge, secure, and contented middle class emerged. All boats rose together. But then the New Deal gave way to the Raw Deal. Beginning in the early 1970s, by means of a long war conceived of and executed by a confederacy of big business CEOs, the superrich, and right-wing zealots, the rules and norms that made the American middle class possible were undermined and dismantled. The clock was turned back on a century of economic progress, making greed good, workers powerless, and the market all-powerful while weaponizing nostalgia, lifting up an oligarchy that served only its own interests, and leaving the huge majority of Americans with dwindling economic prospects and hope. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhy and how did America take such a wrong turn? In this deeply researched and brilliantly woven cultural, economic, and political chronicle, Kurt Andersen offers a fresh, provocative, and eye-opening history of America's undoing, naming names, showing receipts, and unsparingly assigning blame--to the radical right in economics and the law, the high priests of high finance, a complacent and complicit Establishment, and liberal useful idiots, among whom he includes himself. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOnly a writer with Andersen's crackling energy, deep insight, and ability to connect disparate dots and see complex systems with clarity could make such a book both intellectually formidable and vastly entertaining. And only a writer of Andersen's vision could reckon with our current high-stakes inflection point, and show the way out of this man-made disaster.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49746159436049,"sku":"CIN1984801341G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49758287200529,"sku":"CIN1984801341VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":49983147507985,"sku":"CIN1984801341A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50589372940561,"sku":"GOR011117799","price":12.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50679052239121,"sku":"GOR011116384","price":7.4,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53439201476881,"sku":"GOR014921288","price":10.7,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1984801341.jpg?v=1751435755","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/products\/evil-geniuses-book-kurt-andersen-9781984801340","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}