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Prisoners of the American Dream

Paperback • 2018 • 1. edition

Prisoners of the American Dream

By Mike Davis

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Prisoners of the American Dream is Mike Davis's brilliant exegesis of a persistent and major analytical problem for Marxist historians and political economists: Why has the world's most industrially advanced nation never spawned a mass party of the working class? This series of essays surveys the history of the American bourgeois democratic revolution from its Jacksonian beginnings to the rise of the New Right and the re-election of Ronald Reagan, concluding with some bracing thoughts on the pro...Show more

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9781786635907

Publisher

Verso Books

Published year

2018

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Prisoners of the American Dream

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