THE RICH DON’T ALWAYS WIN

Book ID/图书代码： 12070012B53004

English Summary/英文概要： For the 99% this book tells how income inequality developed in the early years of the century

The Occupy Wall Street protests have captured America’s political imagination. Polls show that two-thirds of the nation now believe that America’s enormous wealth ought to be “distributed more evenly.” However, almost as many Americans feel the protests will ultimately have “little impact” on inequality in America. What explains this disconnect? Most Americans have resigned themselves to believing that the rich simply always get their way. Except they don’t.A century ago, the United States hosted a super-rich even more domi-neering than ours today. Yet fifty years later, that super-rich had almost entirely disappeared. Their majestic mansions and estates had become mu -seums and college campuses, and America had become a vibrant, mass-middle-class nation, the first and finest the world had ever seen. Americans today ought to be taking no small inspiration from this stunning change. After all, if our forbears successfully beat back grand fortune, why can’t we? But this transformation is inspiring virtually no one, because the story behind it has remained almost totally unknown, until now.By tracing how average Americans took down plutocracy over the first half of the 20th Century—and how plutocracy came back—The Rich Don’t Always Win offers a deeper understanding of the United States as it is today.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 这本书99%的内容都告诉我们这世纪早期收入不平等是如何发展的。

华尔街抗议已完全吸引了美国政界的眼球。名义调查显示，三分之二的美国国名都认为美国的巨大财富应该“更加均匀地分布”。然而，也有很多的美国人认为抗议最终会对美国的不平等带来“很小的影响”。到底如何解释这种断层呢？大多数美国人都自我安慰式的让自己相信富人之所以富只是因为他们总能找着富的方法，除非他们不那样做。一个世纪以前，美国拥有更多的财富甚至比现今更盛气临人。然而50年之后，那些巨大的财富几乎都消失不见了。他们那些宏伟的大厦和不动产都变成了博物馆和大学校园，美国也变成了一个充满生气的大规模中产阶级国家，一个世界第一且最好的大家都不曾见过的国家。当今的美国人应该从这个的惊人的变化中得到不小的启示。毕竟，如果我们的先辈们能成功消耗掉盛大的财富，为什么我们不能呢？但事实上这种转变几乎没有激励任何人，因为其背后的故事直到今天才为人所知。通过跟踪20世纪上半页普通美国人如何扳倒富豪统治，以及这种富豪统治如何回归，《富人并不永远获胜》这本书对美国提供了比现今更深刻的理解。(LNL)

Awards/获奖情况："Labor journalist Pizzigati makes the case that graduated tax rates and strong unions once led to an economic golden age for average Americans—and could do so again. A flawed but ambitious, readable look at economic reformism over the last century." —Kirkus Reviews

"Make room for The Rich Don’t Always Win on your book shelf right next to Howard Zinn’s The People’s History of America. In his lively, engrossing new book, Sam Pizzigati tells the story of class inequality in America, from the robber barons to today’s "1 %." The title alone is a refreshing reminder that there have been times when the middle class pushed back against the growth of plutocracy -- and won. We can do that again and, as Pizzigati makes clear, we have to." —Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Nickel and Dimed

"Only 50 years ago, America ’soaked’ the rich with a 91 percent income tax. And guess what? America prospered! Not just the rich, but ordinary families. With colorful detail, Sam Pizzigati tells us why we should revisit that policy of prosperity for ALL, rather that for the plutocratic few." —Jim Hightower, national radio commentator and New York Times best-selling author

"Bold, thorough, and above all inspiring—an energizing and spirited reminder of what it took, and what it will take, to once again make ours a nation of equals." —Gar Alperovitz, author of America Beyond Capitalism, and Lionel R. Bauman Professor of Political Economy at the University of Maryland

"This inspiring history offers a bold blueprint for today’s equality movements. We beat back the powerful rule of the wealthy to end the first Gilded Age. We can beat back our current Gilded Age, too, and reverse the extreme inequalities of wealth and power that undermine all that we care about." —Chuck Collins, Institute for Policy Studies, author of 99 to 1: How Wealth Inequality is Wrecking the World and What We Can Do About It

About the Author/作者介绍： 一位资深的劳动记者，SAM PIZZIGATI对流行杂志和学术期刊的读者写了许多关于经济不平等的文章。他的关于收入和财富的专栏和文章出现在了很多美国日报的头版上，从纽约时报到迈阿密先驱报，以及很多主流杂志和期刊。他的最后一本书，《贪婪和美好》：理解并征服了限制我们生活的不平等，获得了一个由美国图书馆协会颁发的邻人垂涎的“优秀称号”奖。

A veteran labor journalist, SAM PIZZIGATI has written widely on economic inequality for both popular and scholarly readers. His op-eds and articles on income and wealth have appeared in a host of major American dailies, from the New York Times to the Miami Herald, and a broad variety of magazines and journals. His last book, Greed and Good: Understanding and Overcoming the In-equality that Limits Our Lives , won a coveted “outstanding title” rating from the American Library Association.

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