Prisoners of the American Dream: Politics and Economy in the History of the US Working Class (Essential Mike Davis) - Softcover

Davis, Mike

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1859842488 ISBN 13: 9781859842485

Publisher: Verso Books, 2000

Synopsis

Prisoners of the American Dream is Mike Davis’s brilliant exegesis of a persistent and major analytical problem for Marxist historians and political economists: Why has the world’s most industrially advanced nation never spawned a mass party of the working class? This series of essays surveys the history of the American bourgeois democratic revolution from its Jacksonian beginnings to the rise of the New Right and the re-election of Ronal Reagan, concluding with some bracing thoughts on the prospects for progressive politics in the United States.

About this title

About the Author:

Mike Davis is the author of several books including Planet of Slums, City of Quartz, Ecology of Fear, Late Victorian Holocausts, and Magical Urbanism. He was recently awarded a MacArthur Fellowship. He lives in Papa’aloa, Hawaii.

Review:

“One of the most uncompromising books about American political economy ever written—brilliant, provocative, and exhaustively researched.”
—Village Voice Literary Supplement

“Impressive—a perceptive and rigorous structural analysis.”
—David Montgomery, Nation

“Only a fool can disregard the implications of what he is arguing.”
—Social History

“Provocative and illuminating.”
—Journal of American Studies

“One of the most trenchant and original analyses of American politics.”
—Socialist Review

About this edition

• Publisher: Verso Books
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 1859842488
• ISBN 13: 9781859842485
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 332