The Sinking Middle Class : A Political History of Debt, Misery, and the Drift to the Right.

Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Languages of Class and the Exhaustion of Political Imagination -- 2. The Pretenses of a Middle-Class United States -- 3. How the Left Has Lived with the Problem of the Middle Class -- 4. Falling, Misery, and the Impossibilities of Middle-Class Life -- 5. Middle-Class Votes: Stanley Greenberg, Democratic Neoliberalism, and the Rightward Drift of US Politics -- Afterword: Doubly Stuck: The Middle Class, the White Working Class, and the Crisis of US Neoliberalism -- Notes -- Index -- Back Cover.

A fierce, historically informed polemic against the idea that the middle class is the key to US greatness, past and future.

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