American Dream Dying: The Changing Economic Lot of the Least Advantaged

by Peter D. McClelland and Peter Tobin

Using recent polling results, this book identifies the core economic components of the American Dream: standard of living, financial security, and upward mobility. The authors document the trend in each of these components over the last thirty years, using figures (trend lines and bar charts) based upon the best available data. Collectively, this evidence has alarming implications for the economic fate of those at the bottom of the nation's income...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1442201967
• ISBN13: 9781442201965
• Release Date: December 2009
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.3" x 9.3"