The Squandering of America: How the Failure of Our Politics Undermines Our Prosperity (Vintage) - Softcover

"A passionate broadside for restoring widespread prosperity to the middle class and reviving a dispirited democracy."--BusinessWeek "With seven years' distance from the Clinton era, [Kuttner's] arguments now look emphatically right." --The New York Times Book Review"Robert Kuttner is a prophet whose time has come. This lucid, passionate, razor-sharp book carries a message as urgent as it is clarifying."--Hendrik Hertzberg "Robert Kuttner has diagnosed the sickness in our body politic."--The Boston Globe

A renowned political and economic critic describes how the elite domination of American politics has made for a less democratic and prosperous society that has also made the economic system more vulnerable, looking at the growing disparity between the rich and poor, hazards of a deregulated economy, and common-sense remedies for the costs of Medicare and Social Security. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.