Prisoners of the American Dream
Prisoners of the American Dream
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Summary
Why has there never been a mass working class party in the United States?
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Prisoners of the American Dream by Mike Davis
Prisoners of the American Dream is Mike Davis's brilliant exegesis of a persistent and major analytical problem for Marxist historians and political economists: Why has the world's most industrially advanced nation never spawned a mass party of the working class? This series of essays surveys the history of the American bourgeois democratic revolution from its Jacksonian beginnings to the rise of the New Right and the reelection of Ronald Reagan, concluding with some bracing thoughts on the prospects for progressive politics in the United States.
Impressive - a perceptive and rigorous structural analysis-- David Montgomery * The Nation *
One of the most uncompromising books about American political economy ever written - brilliant, provocative, and exhaustively researched. * Village Voice *
One of the most trenchant and original analyses of American politics. * Socialist Review *
Prisoners of the American Dream established [Davis's] record of candidly examining the prospects for progressive social change and the dismal fate of organized labor in the United States, with its lack of a party or power. -- Micah Uetricht * The Nation *
One of the most uncompromising books about American political economy ever written - brilliant, provocative, and exhaustively researched. * Village Voice *
One of the most trenchant and original analyses of American politics. * Socialist Review *
Prisoners of the American Dream established [Davis's] record of candidly examining the prospects for progressive social change and the dismal fate of organized labor in the United States, with its lack of a party or power. -- Micah Uetricht * The Nation *
Mike Davis is the author of several books including City of Quartz, The Monster at Our Door, Buda's Wagon, and Planet of Slums. A former meatcutter and long-distance truck driver, he is the recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship and the Lannan Literary Award. He lives in San Diego.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781786635907 |
| ISBN 10 | 1786635909 |
| Title | Prisoners of the American Dream |
| Author | Mike Davis |
| Series | The Essential Mike Davis |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Verso Books |
| Year published | 2018-06-26 |
| Number of pages | 400 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |