Boiling Point: Democrats, Republicans, and the Decline of Middle-Class Prosperity
Language: English
Published by Random House, New York, NY, 1993
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Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. Illustrations. xxiv, 307, [5] p. Notes. Index Kevin Price Phillips (born November 30, 1940) is an American writer and commentator on politics, economics, and history. Formerly a Republican Party strategist before becoming an Independent, Phillips became disaffected with the party from the 1990s, and became a scathing critic. Phillips was a strategist on voting patterns for Richard Nixon's 1968 campaign, which was the basis for a book, The Emerging Republican Majority, which predicted a conservative realignment in national politics, and is widely regarded[citation needed] as one of the most influential recent works in political science. His predictions regarding shifting voting patterns in presidential elections proved accurate. Phillips also was partly responsible for the design of the Republican "Southern strategy" of the 1970s and 1980s. Very good in very good dust jacket. DJ has some wear and soiling. First edition. First edition [stated[. Presumed first printing.…
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- Title
- Boiling Point: Democrats, Republicans, and the Decline of Middle-Class Prosperity
- Author
- Phillips, Kevin
- Publisher
- Random House, New York, NY
- Publication year
- 1993
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
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- 0679404619
- ISBN 13
- 9780679404613
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- 1st Edition
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Teenage homelessness in the Chicago suburbs ... crumpled home values in Southern California ... the worst job market for college graduates in New York City since the Great Depression: It all added up to the sharpest economic decline in decades, provoking political unrest unequaled in sixty years. There had been declines before, but no previous postwar downturn so damaged the white middle class as a whole or raised such fears that Americans might lose the unique economic privileges that they have enjoyed since World War II. Boiling Point shows in dismaying detail what has happened to the middle class since the 1970s in disposable income, earnings, home values, job prospects, public services, assets and net worth, pension safety and health insurance, and the next generation's prospects of enjoying the same rising living standards and upward mobility as its parents had. And it was not a natural result of adverse global trends but of deliberate political choices.
In the Reagan-Bush years American leaders who had once spoken up for the average family were celebrating investors, speculators, and the rich, shifting the burden of taxes from the wealthy to the middle class while starving public services and disregarding the growing debt that would punish future generations.
The populist anger so vivid in 1992 is not a onetime phenomenon. It will persist, Phillips says, until the middle class resumes the road to prosperity under government policies that it considers fair. It is on this that the politics of the 1990s now depends.
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