Prisoners of the American Dream: Politics and Economy in the History of the Us Working Class (Haymarket series)

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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 Ronal Reagan, concluding with some bracing thoughts on the prospects for progressive politics in the United States.

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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 Ronal Reagan, concluding with some bracing thoughts on the prospects for progressive politics in the United States.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 320
Edition: 2nd edition
Publisher: Verso Books
Published: 14 Apr 2000
ISBN 10: 1859842488
ISBN 13: 9781859842485

Media Reviews

Impressive - a perceptive and rigorous structural analysis. - David Montgomery, The Nation One of the most uncompromising books about American political economy ever written - brilliant, provocative, and exhaustively researched. - Village Voice Literary Supplement One of the most trenchant and original analyses of American politics. - Socialist Review

Author Bio

Mike Davis lives in Papa'aloa, Hawaii. He is the author of City of Quartz, Ecology of Fear and most recently Magical Urbanism and Late Victorian Holocausts.