Books by Paul Pierson and Complete Book Reviews
Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson, Simon & Schuster, $27.00 (340p) ISBN 9781416588696
Perhaps you haven't heard: over the last 30 years the middle class has shriveled while the wealthy enjoy the skewed economics of the gilded age. The authors do their best to blow the dust off of their subject by taking a close look at this political
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Jacob S. Hacker, Author, Paul Pierson, Author Yale University Press $28 (261p) ISBN 978-0-300-10870-5
One of the mysteries of contemporary American politics is how, in the wake of triangulating Democrats, a small base of conservative Republicans has steered the country so far to the right. In this book, two political science professors from Yale and
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Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson. Liveright, $26.95 (272p) ISBN 978-1-63149-684-4
Political scientists Hacker and Pierson (American Amnesia) analyze the modern Republican Party’s shift toward “plutocratic populism” in this barbed and cogent account. Contending that all conservative parties within democracies face the same dilemma
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