August, September & October selections

[PNP Public Affairs book group]

Monday, August 26, 2013	Public Affairs Book Group	"Twilight of the Elites" by Christopher Hayes

Description

  Over the past decade, Americans watched in bafflement and rage as one institution after another—from Wall Street to Congress, the Catholic Church to Major League Baseball—imploded under the weight of corruption and incompetence. In the wake of the Fail Decade, the social contract between ordinary citizens and elites lies in tatters.  
   How did we get here? With Twilight of the Elites, Christopher Hayes upends well-worn ideological and partisan categories to offer a radically novel answer. Since the 1960s, as the meritocracy elevated a more diverse group of men and women into power, they learned to embrace the accelerating inequality that had placed them near the very top, leaving a new American elite more prone to failure and corruption and more out of touch with the people they govern.  
   Mixing deft political analysis, timely social commentary, and deep historical understanding, Hayes entirely reorients our perspective on our times by arguing that the public's loss of trust in the federal government, corporate America, and the media has led to a crisis of authority that threatens to engulf not just our politics but our day-to-day lives. 

Monday, September 23, 2013	Public Affairs Book Group	"The Price of Inequality" by Joseph Stiglitz
Monday, October 28, 2013	Public Affairs Book Group	"Shock of Gray" by Ted Fishman

[l shafrit]

Hi,

For those of you not tired of the topic of inequality in US (from Monday's discussion), there's a documentary following Robert Reich called "Inequality for All" opening in area theatres on Friday (not sure which ones). Article in paper, not formal reviews" says the film "capitalizes on Reich's engaging personality to boil down complex economic theories into something understandable. "   Too bad it didn't come out before Monday!

Cheers, Lonna

Monday, September 23, 2013	Public Affairs Book Group	"The Price of Inequality" by Joseph Stiglitz
Monday, October 28, 2013	Public Affairs Book Group	"Shock of Gray" by Ted Fishman

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