Gabriel Winant’s book de-emphasizes manufacturing and highlights care workers. But it neglects the forces of power that keep all workers down.
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Read reviews of nonfiction books on policy, politics and power
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Minority Rule
Given the Republican ferocity in trying to destroy basic rights, the road back to democracy is not civic but political.
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Wrestling With the New Deal
The programs Roosevelt put together may not have met a Platonic ideal of modern progress, but they saved American democracy itself.
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How Labor Saved a Paper Mill From the Scrap Heap
Wisconsin county official and U.S. Senate candidate Tom Nelson writes a fascinating book about revitalizing manufacturing in a small town.
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Reconceiving the American Future
A new book argues that the vision of the United States as a ‘majority-minority’ society is a statistical illusion.
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Change Our Minds, Change the World
Two new books on the false narratives undermining public policy
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A New Environmentalist Playbook
An improbable victory in El Salvador offers lessons for grassroots activists worldwide.
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In Bezosworld
Amazon achieved its world-historical dominance thanks to failed policy and government largesse.
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A Conversation With Rosa Brooks
Prospect co-founder Robert Kuttner interviews the author of the new book ‘Tangled Up in Blue,’ on police reform.
