04794cam a2200373 i 4500003000800000005001700008007000300025008004100028020003000069035001300099040001800112041000800130042000800138043001200146050002400158082002000182100003600202245008100238250001200319264003500331300002000366504005600386505032400442520179300766520148102559650003304040650003304073651005204106651005404158651005004212651005304262651005604315651004904371BJBSDDR20230404125849.0ta140626s2014    nyu      b    000 0 eng    a9780385528238 (hardcover)  a18201770  aDLCbspacDLC  aeng  apcc  an-us---14aHN 59.2bH536l 201400a305.5/509732231 aHerbert, Bobq(Robert), d1945-10aLosing our way :ban intimate portrait of a troubled America /cBob Herbert.  a1st ed. 1aNew York :bDoubleday,c[2014]  a283 p. ;c25 cm  aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [259]-283).0 aFalling apart -- Falling apart II -- Jobs and the middle class -- War and its aftermath -- Understanding the costs of war -- Poverty and inequality -- The public schools -- Poverty and public education -- War's madness runs deep -- Hurricane Sandy and other disasters -- Cashing in on schools -- Mistreating the troops.  a"In a searing indictment of America's decline, former New York Times columnist Bob Herbert profiles struggling Americans--casualties of decades of government policies that have produced underemployment, inequality, and pointless wars--and offers a ringing call to arms to restore justice and the American dream.  The United States needs to be reimagined. Once described by Lincoln as the last best hope on earth, the country seemed on the verge of fulfilling its immense promise in the mid 1960s and early 1970s: unemployment was low, wages and profits were high, and the nation's wealth--by today's standards--was distributed in a remarkably equitable fashion. America was a society confident that it could bring a middle-class standard of living (at the very least) and the full rights of citizenship to virtually everyone. This sense of possibility has evaporated. In this book longtime New York Times columnist Bob Herbert combines devastating stories of suffering Americans with keen political analysis to show where decades of corporate greed, political apathy, and short-term thinking have led: America's infrastructure is crumbling, our schools fail our children, unnecessary wars maim our young men, and underemployment plagues a generation. He traces how the United States went wrong, exposing the slow, dangerous shift of political influence from the working population in the 1960s to the corporate and financial elite today, who act largely in their own self-interest. But the situation isn't entirely hopeless. Herbert argues that by tapping the creative ideas of people across the country who are implementing solutions at the local level, the middle class can reassert its power, put the economy back on track, and usher in a new progressive era"--cProvided by publisher.  a"The United States needs to be reimagined. Once described by Lincoln as the last best hope on earth, the country seemed on the verge of fulfilling its immense promise in the mid 1960s and early 1970s: unemployment was low, wages and profits were high, and the nation's wealth--by today's standards--was distributed in a remarkably equitable fashion. America was a society confident that it could bring a middle-class standard of living (at the very least) and the full rights of citizenship to virtually everyone. This sense of possibility has evaporated. In this book longtime New York Times columnist Bob Herbert combines devastating stories of suffering Americans with keen political analysis to show where decades of corporate greed, political apathy, and short-term thinking have led: America's infrastructure is crumbling, our schools fail our children, unnecessary wars maim our young men, and underemployment plagues a generation. He traces how the United States went wrong, exposing the slow, dangerous shift of political influence from the working population in the 1960s to the corporate and financial elite today, who act largely in their own self-interest. But the situation isn't entirely hopeless. Herbert argues that by tapping the creative ideas of people across the country who are implementing solutions at the local level, the middle class can reassert its power, put the economy back on track, and usher in a new progressive era"--cProvided by publisher. 0aMiddle classzUnited States. 4aClase mediazEstados Unidos. 0aUnited StatesxSocial conditionsy21st century. 0aUnited StatesxEconomic conditionsy21st century. 0aUnited StatesxPolitics and governmenty1989- 4aEstados UnidosxCondiciones socialesySiglo XXI. 4aEstados UnidosxCondiciones económicasySiglo XXI 4aEstados UnidosxPolítica y gobiernoy1989-