Boiling Point: Democrats, Republicans, and the Decline of Middle-class Prosperity

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HarperPerennial, 1994 - Political Science - 307 pages
From the bestselling author of The Politics of Rich and Poor comes a scholarly examination of the steady decline of America's middle class--the book President Clinton singled out as the source that would help him solve the middle-class dilemma.

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Kevin Price Phillips (born November 30, 1940) has been a political commentator for more than thirty years. He was educated at the Bronx High School of Science, Colgate University, the University of Edinburgh and Harvard Law School. Phillips worked on Nixon's presidential campaign in 1968 and in the White House after the election. His books include: Post-Conservative America (1982), The Politics of Rich and Poor: Wealth and Electorate in the Reagan Aftermath (1990), Boiling Point: Democrats, Republicans, and the Decline of Middle Class Prosperity (1993), Wealth and Democracy: A Political History of the American Rich (2002), Bad Money: Reckless Finance, Failed Politics, and the Global Crisis of American Capitalism (2007), and 1775: A Good Year for Revolution (2012).

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