{"product_id":"the-rich-dont-always-win-isbn-9781609804343","title":"The Rich Don't Always Win","description":"The Occupy Wall Street protests have captured America's political imagination. Polls show that two-thirds of the nation now believe that America's enormous wealth ought to be \"distributed more evenly.\" However, almost as many Americans--well over half--feel the protests will ultimately have \"little impact\" on inequality in America. What explains this disconnect? Most Americans have resigned themselves to believing that the rich simply always get their way.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExcept they don't.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA century ago, the United States hosted a super-rich even more domineering than ours today. Yet fifty years later, that super-rich had almost entirely disappeared. Their majestic mansions and estates had become museums and college campuses, and America had become a vibrant, mass middle class nation, the first and finest the world had ever seen.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAmericans today ought to be taking no small inspiration from this stunning change. After all, if our forbears successfully beat back grand fortune, why can't we? But this transformation is inspiring virtually no one. Why? Because the story behind it has remained almost totally unknown, until now.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis lively popular history will speak directly to the political hopelessness so many Americans feel. By tracing how average Americans took down plutocracy over the first half of the 20th Century--and how plutocracy came back-- \u003ci\u003eThe Rich Don't Always Win \u003c\/i\u003ewill outfit Occupy Wall Street America with a deeper understanding of what we need to do to get the United States back on track to the American dream.\"Labor  journalist Pizzigati makes the case that graduated tax rates and strong  unions once led to an economic golden age for average Americans—and  could do so again. A flawed but ambitious, readable look at economic  reformism over the last century.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Make room for \u003ci\u003eThe Rich Don't Always Win\u003c\/i\u003e on your book shelf right next to Howard Zinn's \u003ci\u003eThe People's History of America\u003c\/i\u003e. In his lively, engrossing new book, Sam Pizzigati tells the story of class inequality in America, from the robber barons to today's \"1 %.\" The title alone is a refreshing reminder that there have been times when the middle class pushed back against the growth of plutocracy -- and won. We can do that again and, as Pizzigati makes clear, we have to.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e—\u003c\/i\u003eBarbara Ehrenreich, author of\u003ci\u003e Nickel and Dimed\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Only 50 years ago, America 'soaked' the rich with a 91 percent income tax. And guess what? America prospered! Not just the rich, but ordinary families. With colorful detail, Sam Pizzigati tells us why we should revisit that policy of prosperity for ALL, rather that for the plutocratic few.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Jim Hightower, national radio commentator and \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e best-selling author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Bold, thorough, and above all inspiring—an energizing and spirited reminder of what it took, and what it will take, to once again make ours a nation of equals.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Gar Alperovitz, author of \u003ci\u003eAmerica Beyond Capitalism\u003c\/i\u003e, and Lionel R. Bauman Professor of Political Economy at the University of Maryland\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This inspiring history offers a bold blueprint for today’s equality movements. We beat back the powerful rule of the wealthy to end the first Gilded Age.  We can beat back our current Gilded Age, too, and reverse the extreme inequalities of wealth and power that undermine all that we care about.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Chuck Collins, Institute for Policy Studies, author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e99 to 1: How Wealth Inequality is Wrecking the World and What We Can Do About It\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Overlooking the current political-economic landscape of the United States, one might perhaps be forgiven for thinking that the country's wealthiest have gamed the system such that they will always come out on top, to the detriment of the rest of us. Labor journalist Pizzigati reviews the history of the 20th century in order to remind us that such sentiments might have seemed equally valid at the start of the that century, but that a broad group of activists, union organizers, political coalitions, and others fought a long-running battle to curtail the privileges of the plutocrats and to create the conditions for an unprecedented expansion of the middle class.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—BOOK NEWS, Inc.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Sam Pizzigati's new book, The Rich Don't Always Win: The Forgotten Triumph over Plutocracy that Created the American Middle Class 1900-1970, could therefore not come at a better time to rejuvenate the issue of income disparity and what to do about it. Employing a staggering compilation of primary sources, this exceptionally well-researched book reveals the previously unknown story of Americans who fought to overthrow plutocracy in the early 20th century.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Foreign Policy in Focus\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eA veteran labor journalist, \u003cb\u003eSAM PIZZIGATI\u003c\/b\u003e has written widely on economic inequality for both popular and scholarly readers. His op-eds and articles on the subject of wealth have appeared in a host of major American dailies, from the\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e to the \u003ci\u003eMiami Herald\u003c\/i\u003e, and in a variety of magazines and journals. His 2004 book, \u003ci\u003eGreed and Good: Understanding and Overcoming the Inequality That Limits Our Lives\u003c\/i\u003e, won a coveted \"outstanding title\" rating from the American Library Association. Pizzigati ran the publishing operations of America's largest union, the 3.2 million-member National Education Association, for twenty years and now serves as an associate fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, DC. His monthly newsletter on excess and inequality, \u003ci\u003eToo Much\u003c\/i\u003e, is considered a must-read for economic justice activists and anyone else interested in the politics of excess. Pizzigati lives in Maryland.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Seven Stories Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302454743269,"sku":"NP9781609804343","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781609804343.jpg?v=1767741233","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-rich-dont-always-win-isbn-9781609804343","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}