A People's History of the Great Recession [NOOK Book]

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Overview

Every book about the economic crisis of the late 2000s focuses on the institutions that caused the recession and the brilliant geniuses who were at the top when it all went down. This book is about the people on the bottom who got flattened through no fault of their own. Their stories show what happens when the system doesn't work. Now our political leaders are in the middle of a big debate about how much the nation should spend on social programs that help people. This book asks the question a different way: How...
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A People's History of the Great Recession

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Overview

Every book about the economic crisis of the late 2000s focuses on the institutions that caused the recession and the brilliant geniuses who were at the top when it all went down. This book is about the people on the bottom who got flattened through no fault of their own. Their stories show what happens when the system doesn't work. Now our political leaders are in the middle of a big debate about how much the nation should spend on social programs that help people. This book asks the question a different way: How much indignity should regular folks have to suffer?

For the past two years, Huffington Post reporter Arthur Delaney has written about the economic crisis, interviewing and emailing with hundreds and hundreds of people who didn't understand where they went wrong. This book is about them.
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Product Details

  • BN ID: 2940013073395
  • Publisher: Huffington Post Media Group
  • Publication date: 8/30/2011
  • Sold by: Barnes & Noble
  • Format: eBook
  • Sales rank: 908,774
  • File size: 2 MB

Meet the Author

Arthur Delaney started working for HuffPost in 2009. He has written for the Washington City Paper, The Hill newspaper, Slate Magazine, and ABCNews.com. In 2008 he won the Street Sense David A. Pike Excellence in Journalism award for a City Paper story about a man living on the median strip of a freeway in Washington. He and HuffPost D.C. bureau chief Ryan Grim won a Sidney Award from the Hillman Foundation for their 2010 story "The Poorhouse: Aunt Winnie, Glenn Beck, and the Politics of the New Deal."
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  • Anonymous

    Posted September 7, 2011

    Great

    Good read.

    2 out of 3 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted December 15, 2011

    Important to read

    The Peoples History of The great Recession has put stories of those everyday people who have endured the most severe downturn of our economy since the great depression.The book desribes the frustrations and feelings of those people who have been severly impacted by this current trend.
    It is an important book to read if you are an everday person so you can have a realistic understanding of how institutions can dramatically effect your life.

    1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted September 10, 2011

    Highly Recommend

    This should be a required read for every Republican and Tea Party advocate.

    1 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted December 24, 2011

    Thought provoking

    This is a must read for those of you who doubt what the "radical right" has in store for the rest of us!!

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  • Posted October 11, 2011

    A real left wing wierdo

    He brings out one sob story after another about people who have lived off unemployment for 99 weeks and then we should feel sorry for them because their free ride is finally at an end.
    I'd like to see statistics as to what percentage of people after living off unemployment for 99 weeks find a job in the next week. That would be more interesting than this book. The 2 cases I knew personally they were both opposed to going back to work because that had to end their "under the table work." That hadn't been full time, but with those jobs and their unemployment they made more than they could working full time and for less work. Another part of the book was a rant against big banks. WHy not try small banks?

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