Tailspin: The People and Forces Behind America’s Fifty-Year Fall—and Those Fighting to Reverse It - Steven Brill Audiobook
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America
Culture
Decline
History
Philosophy
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From the award-winning journalist and best-selling author of ‘America’s Bitter Pill’: a tour de force examination of (1) how and why major American institutions no longer serve us as they should, causing a deep rift between the vulnerable majority and the protected few, and (2) how some individuals and organizations are laying the foundation for real, lasting change.
In this revelatory narrative covering the years 1967 to 2017, Steven Brill gives us a stunningly cogent picture of the broken system at the heart of our society.
He shows us how, over the last half-century, America’s core values — meritocracy, innovation, due process, free speech, and even democracy itself — have somehow managed to power its decline into dysfunction.
They have isolated our best and brightest, whose positions at the top have never been more secure or more remote.
The result has been an erosion of responsibility and accountability, an epidemic of shortsightedness, an increasingly hollow economic and political center, and millions of Americans gripped by apathy and hopelessness.
By examining the people and forces behind the rise of big-money lobbying, legal and financial engineering, the demise of private-sector unions, and a hamstrung bureaucracy, Brill answers the question on everyone’s mind: “How did we end up this way?”
Finally, he introduces us to those working quietly and effectively to repair the damages.
At once a diagnosis of our national ills, a history of their development, and a prescription for a brighter future, ‘Tailspin’ is a work of riveting journalism — and a welcome antidote to political despair.
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Contents:
Dedication
01 The Protected and the Unprotected
02 Meritocracy Becomes the New Aristocracy
03 Casino Country
04 The Greening of the First Amendment
05 Making Markets Efficient—and Marginalizing those Left Behind
06 “Lip Service” for America’s Workers
07 Dysfunctional Democracy
08 Moat Nation
09 Why Nothing Works
10 Broken
11 Protecting the Most Unprotected
12 Storming the Moats
Acknowledgments
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Brill_(journalist)
nationalreview.com/magazine/2018/09/10/tailspin-steven-brill-book-review
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This post has 13 comments with rating of 3/5
December 10th, 2021
People were told that it was okay to fail and that it wasn’t their fault and that the government would take care of them. Then one party grew their un-American agenda by telling those same people that they could solve all of their problems. Here we are today.
December 10th, 2021
It a wonder how many educated but dumb people there.
America sat on loads of millions of years of cheaply extractable stored sun light.
You can have spirit, heart, drive & all other human qualities, but without all that coal then oil to harvest the non energy resources there is no modern USA.
Now, here’s the problem. You can produce the 10 greatest men to ever live, but neither alone nor together can they replace the low hanging (fruit) resources. We used it all. Oil is getting more expensive to extract & refine in some cases.
We you me live in a physical world & the fantasy years are soon over.
“The Two Worlds
A Planetary Limits perspective steps to the side and starts by acknowledging a non-negotiable physical basis to everything.”
https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2021/11/caught-up-in-complexity/#more-2078
December 10th, 2021
10 stars out of 5
It starts out kinda slow and boring, but it gets really good.
Definitely a must-read book.
December 10th, 2021
@apnea since your first sentence seems to be missing two verbs it’s true, funny, and proves your point.
December 12th, 2021
Thank you Sir.
December 12th, 2021
Easy: Jews
December 15th, 2021
stoning liberal loons in the public square would be a great start, Starting with Comrade Bernie
December 17th, 2021
No flags on the cover. Therefore it’s full of communism and cortical rice thierry.
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December 17th, 2021
Synopsis of the “book”
Democrats are good. Republicans are bad.
Brill, a multimillionaire, who thinks that Americans are undertaxed. As long as it doesn’t affect him.
He’s a lawyer, so he’s smarter than all of you.
A nothing book by a mediocre person. Yawn..
December 19th, 2021
Really, both wings of the eagle turned backwards and led the clawed beast to flip around an eff us all in the A, led by two parties, in a coordinated and highly manufactured effort.
vote today!
December 19th, 2021
regression to the mean
December 21st, 2021
RENAMED: Gas Light Xpress
August 27th, 2022
apollo60, which is it? Is this person mediocre or a multimillionaire? Extremely difficult to be both unless he was born into it. Also, is a he a lawyer or is he mediocre? Most people barely have college degrees, let alone make it through specialized degree tracks like medicine or law, so it’s a pretty hard point to make.
It really just sounds like sour grapes on your part. I’ll remember your name and keep your attitude in mind in my assessment of your future comments.
Really very unfortunate.
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