{"id":17017,"date":"2020-12-31T11:59:18","date_gmt":"2020-12-31T19:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=17017"},"modified":"2020-12-31T11:59:20","modified_gmt":"2020-12-31T19:59:20","slug":"book-evil-geniuses-the-unmaking-of-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2020\/12\/31\/book-evil-geniuses-the-unmaking-of-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Book: “Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

by\u00a0Kurt Andersen<\/a>\u00a0(Goodreads Author)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During the twentieth century, America managed to make its economic and social systems both more and more fair and more and more prosperous. A huge, secure, and contented middle class emerged. All boats rose together. But then the New Deal gave way to the Raw Deal. Beginning in the early 1970s, by means of a long war conceived of and executed by a confederacy of big business CEOs, the superrich, and right-wing zealots, the rules and norms that made the American middle class possible were undermined and dismantled. The clock was turned back on a century of economic progress, making greed good, workers powerless, and the market all-powerful while weaponizing nostalgia, lifting up an oligarchy that served only its own interests, and leaving the huge majority of Americans with dwindling economic prospects and hope.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why and how did America take such a wrong turn? In this deeply researched and brilliantly woven cultural, economic, and political chronicle, Kurt Andersen offers a fresh, provocative, and eye-opening history of America\u2019s undoing, naming names, showing receipts, and unsparingly assigning blame\u2014to the radical right in economics and the law, the high priests of high finance, a complacent and complicit Establishment, and liberal \u201cuseful idiots,\u201d among whom he includes himself.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America by\u00a0Kurt Andersen\u00a0(Goodreads Author) During the twentieth century, America managed to make its economic and social systems both more and more fair and more and more prosperous. A huge, secure, and contented middle class emerged. All boats rose together. But then the New Deal gave… Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17017"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17017"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17018,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17017\/revisions\/17018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}