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Two Nations, Indivisible: A History of Inequality in America by Jamie L. Bronstein (Hardcover, 2016)

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While examining the arguments made in favor of egalitarianism, this book debunks the notion that the United States is now or has ever been a nation offering equal opportunity to all. In the Declaration of Independence, Jefferson famously asserted that all men are created equal. Likewise, social mobility-the idea that any child can grow up to be president-has been key to the myth of what makes America great. Yet the hard truth is that inequality of both opportunity and resulting condition has been a defining feature of America's story. Written by a comparative labor historian, this book combines economic and social history with intellectual history to reveal the major trends of inequality that have been evident in America from Revolutionary times through the present. The book opens with an introduction to the burgeoning issue of inequality in America. The following chronological chapters describe how inequality was manifest in various periods. Each chapter not only provides a full survey of the secondary literature related to the topic of inequality in the particular time period but also examines prescriptions from thinkers who espoused equality, including Thomas Paine, Thomas Skidmore, Henry George, Jane Addams, Upton Sinclair, and Harry Caudill. By assessing these and other arguments relevant to social change, the work helps readers understand the cases made for and against equality of opportunity and condition throughout U.S. history. Exposes the extent to which inequality exists-and has always existed-in the United States Traces the deep roots of the American concern about inequality and the ways in which that concern has taken different forms over time, from the movement for free homesteads, to the Populist movement, to the Progressives, to the career of Huey Long, to Occupy Wall Street Blends intellectual, social, and political history to explore arguments for and against equality of opportunity and equality of condition Shows the impact of such arguments at various levels of politics

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ABC-Clio
ISBN-13
9781440838286
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Economic Sociology
Author
Jamie L. Bronstein
Publication Name
Two Nations, Indivisible: a History of Inequality in America
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Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
History
Publication Year
2016
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
215 Pages

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United States

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