{"product_id":"more-equal-than-others-9780691127675","title":"More Equal Than Others","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLooks back on twenty-five years of what Hodgson calls \"the conservative ascendancy\" in America, demonstrating how it has come to dominate American politics. This title addresses a range of issues, with chapters on politics, the economy, immigration, technology, women, race, and foreign policy, among others.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In More Equal Than Others, an up-to-the-minute critique of modern American life, the British historian Godfrey Hodgson combines intelligent discussions of pressures that have shaped American society during the last quarter-century ... With a factoid-packed jeremiad against the triumph of the suburb--the demographic zone where half the population now lives, where two-thirds of new jobs are located, whose voting strength overawes Congress... Although Hodgson writes as a liberal, he levels [his] charges across party lines.\"--Allen D. Boyer, New York Times Book Review \"[A] wonderfully written, wide-ranging and profoundly depressing book. Hodgson's theme is that the US has changed for the worse in the past 25 years: inequality is supplanting equality, even equality of opportunity.\"--Kathleen Burk, Financial Times \"[Hodgson] sees a country which the postwar liberal consensus has indeed moved right, turning free-market capitalism from an economic theory into a cultural template. The result is an America in which financial segregation increasingly preserves opportunity for a wealthy elite... [He] argues convincingly that American society has come to resemble old-fashioned Europe, with its strictly class-structured elites.\"--Michael Carlson, The Spectator \"The most thoughtful, thorough and sorrowful book imaginable on what has happened in these years.\"--Bernard Crick, The Independent \"Godfrey Hodgson ... delivers a relentless indictment of an American grown ... far too sure of itself. In More Equal Than Others, he argues that a wave of right-wing triumphalism has overtaken the country since the Soviet Union's death from exhaustion. In its train, it has brought us a sanctification of the unfettered market, an intensification of Americans' long-standing contempt for government, and--most appallingly--a complacent acceptance of unprecedented inequalities in wealth, education, and opportunity.\"--Matthew A. Crenson, Political Science Quarterly\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eForeword ix  Acknowledgments xiii  Introduction  Disappointment and Denial xvii  1 State of the Union 1  2 New Politics 29  3 New Technology 61  4 New Economics 87  5 New Immigrants 112  6 New Women 139  7 New South, Old Race 172  8 New Society 203  9 New World 249  10 New Century 288  Notes 305  Select Bibliography 349  Index 361","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51359107285335,"sku":"9780691127675","price":31.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691127675.jpg?v=1754123613","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/more-equal-than-others-9780691127675","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}