The New Politics of Inequality [Paperback]

In the past decade, power controlling the nation's taxing and spending policies has become increasingly concentrated in the hands of the affluentand exercised for the benefit of the affluent. Traditional liberal beliefs in tax equity and income redistribution have been replaced by theories justifying tax reductions in income concentrated among the very rich. In this book, Thomas Edsall, a Capitol Hill reporter for the[Edsall] has written a cool analysis of trends in voting patterns, union power and the fortunes of the two major parties. . . . This first-class book [is] the best single explanation of Reagans success that I have encountered. Robert Lekachman,