Declining Fortunes: The Withering Of The American Dream

by Katherine S. Newman

Shedding new light on downward mobility and the politics of resentment, the author of Falling from Grace describes the damage that economic decline has done to the people of America. $25,000 ad/promo.

Genres: Nonfiction, Politics

272 pages, Hardcover

First published May 1, 1993

About the author

Katherine Newman is Professor of Sociology and James Knapp Dean of the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences at Johns Hopkins University. Author of several books on middle class economic instability, urban poverty, and the sociology of inequality, she previously taught at the University of California (Berkeley), Columbia, Harvard, and Princeton.

Reviews

[Rita]

c 1993.
I have a note that Petra Netzorg recommended this book to me.