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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Herbert, Bob, 1945-     Subjects     Middle class -- United States.     United States -- Social conditions -- 21st century.     United States -- Economic conditions -- 21st century.     United States -- Politics and government -- 1989-     Browse Catalog     by author:      Herbert, Bob, 1945-       by title:      Losing our way : an ...         MARC Display

Losing our way : an intimate portrait of a troubled America / Bob Herbert. by Herbert, Bob, 1945- New York : Doubleday, c2014. Subjects Middle class -- United States.   United States -- Social conditions -- 21st century.   United States -- Economic conditions -- 21st century.   United States -- Politics and government -- 1989- Electronic Resource 9780385528238.jpg ISBN:  9780385528238 (hardcover) : 038552823X (hardcover) Description:  283 pages ; 25 cm Edition:  First edition. Contents:  Falling apart -- Falling apart II -- Jobs and the middle class -- War and its aftermath -- Understating the costs of war -- Poverty and inequality -- The public schools -- Poverty and public education -- War's madness runs deep -- Hurricane Sandy and other disasters -- Cashing in on schools -- Mistreating the troops -- Epilogue: looking ahead. Requests:  0 Summary:  "The United States needs to be reimagined. Once described by Lincoln as the last best hope on earth, the country seemed on the verge of fulfilling its immense promise in the mid 1960s and early 1970s: unemployment was low, wages and profits were high, and the nation's wealth--by today's standards--was distributed in a remarkably equitable fashion. America was a society confident that it could bring a middle-class standard of living (at the very least) and the full rights of citizenship to virtually everyone. This sense of possibility has evaporated. In this book longtime New York Times columnist Bob Herbert combines devastating stories of suffering Americans with keen political analysis to show where decades of corporate greed, political apathy, and short-term thinking have led: America's infrastructure is crumbling, our schools fail our children, unnecessary wars maim our young men, and underemployment plagues a generation. He traces how the United States went wrong, exposing the slow, dangerous shift of political influence from the working population in the 1960s to the corporate and financial elite today, who act largely in their own self-interest. But the situation isn't entirely hopeless. Herbert argues that by tapping the creative ideas of people across the country who are implementing solutions at the local level, the middle class can reassert its power, put the economy back on track, and usher in a new progressive era"--   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Social Science & Philosophy 305.55097 He Checked In Add Copy to MyList Hilo Public Library Adult Nonfiction 305.55097 Herbert withdrawn Add Copy to MyList

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