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Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America: A Recent History

Kurt Andersen

How did a deliberate push by business and the rich, starting in the seventies, reshape the American economy and politics?

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Kurt Andersen

Why read it

  • You will see how changes to regulation, work and Wall Street rules added up over decades
  • You will understand why job insecurity can be a feature of the system, not an accident
  • You will learn how a turn to nostalgia is tied to economic stagnation

Who it is for

  • A worker who feels pay and security have slipped away
  • A voter who wants a long history behind today's divides
  • Someone who remembers the America of the sixties and wonders what changed

Contents

  1. INTRODUCTION
  2. Part One: A Brief History of America
  3. Chapter 2: Land of the New: An Economic History from the 1770s to the 1970s
  4. Chapter 3: Approaching Peak New: The 1960s
  5. Chapter 4: The 1970s: An Equal and Opposite Reaction
  6. Chapter 5: The 1970s: Liberalism Peaks and the Counterrevolution Begins
  7. Chapter 6: The 1970s: Building the Counter-Establishment
  8. Chapter 7: The 1970s: From a Bicentennial Pageant to a Presidency
  9. Chapter 8: The 1970s: Neoliberal Useful Idiots
  10. Chapter 9: The Reagan Revolution
  11. Chapter 10: Raw Deal: What Happened in the 1980s Didn’t Stay in the 1980s
  12. Chapter 11: The Rule of Law
  13. Chapter 12: The Deregulation Generation
  14. Chapter 13: The Culture of Greed Is Good
  15. Chapter 14: How Wall Street Ate America
  16. Chapter 15: Workers of the New World, You Lose
  17. Chapter 16: Insecurity Is a Feature, Not a Bug
  18. Chapter 17: Socially Liberal, Fiscally Conservative, Generally Complacent
  19. Chapter 18: The Permanent Reagan Revolution
  20. Chapter 19: The 1990s: Restrained and Reckless
  21. Chapter 20: Rewind, Pause, Stop: The End of the New
  22. Chapter 21: The Politics of Nostalgia and Stagnation Since the 1990s
  23. Chapter 22: Ruthless Beats Reasonable
  24. Chapter 23: Winners and Losers in the Class War
  25. Chapter 24: American Exceptionalism
  26. Part Five: Make America New Again
  27. Chapter 25: Winners and Losers (So Far) in the Digital Revolution
  28. Chapter 26: How the Future Will Work
  29. Chapter 27: This Strategic Inflection Point
  30. Chapter 28: What Is to Be Done?
  31. Chapter 29: The Plague Year and Beyond
  32. BY KURT ANDERSEN

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