“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

“Prisoners of the American Dream established [Davis’s] record of candidly examining the prospects for progressive social change and the dismal fate of organized labor in the United States, with its lack of a party or power.”
—Micah Uetricht, The Nation