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- To make sense of the rise and subsequent fall of the American dream, Leonhardt tells the story of the modern American economy as an ongoing battle between two competing forms of one that envisions prosperity for most, and one that serves the individual and favors the wealthy.
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Oct 24, 2023 · David Leonhardt, a senior writer for The New York Times, has written a “biography” of the American dream, specifically — as his title, “Ours Was the Shining Future,” suggests — an account...
Feb 8, 2023 · Drawing on decades of writing about the economy for The New York Times, Pulitzer Prize–winning writer David Leonhardt examines the past century of American history, from the Great Depression to today’s Great Stagnation, in search of an answer.
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Oct 26, 2023 · In “Ours Was the Shining Future,” David Leonhardt chronicles a century of American economic life to make a pointed argument about the present.
- Nick Romeo
Oct 24, 2023 · OURS WAS THE SHINING FUTURE THE RISE AND FALL OF THE AMERICAN DREAM. by David Leonhardt ‧ RELEASE DATE: Oct. 24, 2023. Excellent, accessible overview of socioeconomic trends over the last decades and what they bode for the future.
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Featuring the trailblazing figures who helped shape the American dream—Frances Perkins, Paul Hoffman, Cesar Chavez, Robert Kennedy, A. Philip Randolph, Grace Hopper, and more—this engaging history reveals the power of grassroots democratic movements from across the political spectrum.
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Oct 24, 2023 · What happened to the "American dream"—the promise of a happier, healthier, more prosperous future—which was once such an inextricable part of our national identity? Pulitzer Prize-winning writer David Leonhardt examines the past century of American history, from the Great Depression to today's Great Stagnation, in search of an answer.
In vivid prose, Ours Was the Shining Future traces how democratic capitalism flourished to make the American dream possible, until the latter decades of the twentieth century when, bit by bit, the dream was corrupted to serve only the privileged few.
