During the past quarter century, free-market capitalism was
recognized not merely as a successful system of wealth creation,
but as the key determinant of the health of political and cultural
democracy. Now, renowned British journalist and historian Godfrey
Hodgson takes aim at this popular view in a book that promises to
become one of the most important political histories of our time.
"More Equal Than Others" looks back on twenty-five years of what
Hodgson calls "the conservative ascendancy" in America,
demonstrating how it has come to dominate American politics.
Hodgson disputes the notion that the rise of conservatism has
spread affluence and equality to the American people. Quite the
contrary, he writes, the most distinctive feature of American
society in the closing years of the twentieth century was its great
and growing inequality. He argues that the combination of
conservative ideology and corporate power and dominance by mass
media obsessed with lifestyle and celebrity have caused America to
abandon much of what was best in its past. In fact, he writes,
income and wealth inequality have become so extreme that America
now resembles the class-stratified societies of early
twentieth-century Europe.
"More Equal Than Others" addresses a broad range of issues, with
chapters on politics, the new economy, immigration, technology,
women, race, and foreign policy, among others. A fitting sequel to
the author's critically acclaimed "America In Our Time," "More
Equal Than Others" is not only an outstanding synthesis of history,
but a trenchant commentary on the state of the American Dream.
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