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Author:   Donald L. Barlett ,  James B. Steele
Publisher:   The Perseus Books Group
Imprint:   PublicAffairs,U.S.
Dimensions:   Width: 16.30cm , Height: 2.60cm , Length: 24.10cm
Weight:   0.535kg
ISBN:  

9781586489694

ISBN 10:   1586489690
Pages:   304
Publication Date:   16 August 2012
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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<p> Booklist, **starred** review<br> Barlett and Steele address key elements of this betrayal [of the middle class] (globalization, outsourcing, taxes, pensions, financial-sector dominance), then offer suggestions for reversing it, including progressive tax reform, fair trade, infrastructure investment, focused retraining, and criminal prosecution of white-collar criminals. Expect demand. <p> Columbia Journalism Review <br> The dedication reveals the emotional heart of their enterprise: Not merely number-crunching chroniclers of middle-class decline, they are invested in the fate of the people who exemplify it. Barlett and Steele's preeminent talent is their knack for combining the micro and the macro. They look systemically at issues and policies, from the US tax code to healthcare. The questions they ask are both pragmatic (Does the system work?) and ideological (Who is benefiting, and at whose expense?). Their conclusions are buttressed by details gleaned from public records. But they also use the paper trail to track down the system's apparent victims...the laid-off, the discarded, the pensionless, and the uninsured. <br> Publishers Weekly <br> The ostensibly willful destruction of the American middle class is laid bare in this villains and underdogs story from the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporting duo...for folks bowled over by the recent financial meltdown, Barlett and Steele's book will resonate. <br> Leonard Downie, Philadelphia Inquirer<br> Just in time for this year's election, Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele are continuing the crusade to save the American middle class that they began two decades ago as star investigative reporters at The Philadelphia Inquirer....At a time when the future of investigative reporting is at risk in the digital reconstruction of American news media, Barlett and Steele could once again pioneer new ways of doing it, as they did in part through this collaboration with the Investigative Reporting Workshop. In any ev

<p> Booklist , **starred** review<br> Barlett and Steele address key elements of this betrayal [of the middle class] (globalization, outsourcing, taxes, pensions, financial-sector dominance), then offer suggestions for reversing it, including progressive tax reform, fair trade, infrastructure investment, focused retraining, and criminal prosecution of white-collar criminals. Expect demand. <p> Columbia Journalism Review <br> The dedication reveals the emotional heart of their enterprise: Not merely number-crunching chroniclers of middle-class decline, they are invested in the fate of the people who exemplify it. Barlett and Steele's preeminent talent is their knack for combining the micro and the macro. They look systemically at issues and policies, from the US tax code to healthcare. The questions they ask are both pragmatic (Does the system work?) and ideological (Who is benefiting, and at whose expense?). Their conclusions are buttressed by details gleaned from public records. But they also use the paper trail to track down the system's apparent victims...the laid-off, the discarded, the pensionless, and the uninsured.

<p> Booklist , **starred** review<br> Barlett and Steele address key elements of this betrayal [of the middle class] (globalization, outsourcing, taxes, pensions, financial-sector dominance), then offer suggestions for reversing it, including progressive tax reform, fair trade, infrastructure investment, focused retraining, and criminal prosecution of white-collar criminals. Expect demand.

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Donald L. Barlett and James B.Steele (www.barlettandsteele.com) are the nation's most honored investigative reporting team. They have worked together for more than thirty-eight years, first at The Philadelphia Inquirer (1971-1997), then at Time magazine (1997 - 2006) and now at Vanity Fair since 2006. They have also written seven books. Their work has earned them dozens of national awards. They are the only reporting team ever to have received two Pulitzer Prizes for newspaper reporting and two National Magazine Awards for magazine work.

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