{"product_id":"evil-geniuses-by-kurt-andersen","title":"Evil Geniuses by Kurt Andersen","description":"\u003cp\u003eDuring the twentieth century, America managed to make its economic and social systems both more and more fair and more and more prosperous. A huge, secure, and contented middle class emerged. All boats rose together. But then the New Deal gave way to the Raw Deal. Beginning in the early 1970s, by means of a long war conceived of and executed by a confederacy of big business CEOs, the superrich, and right-wing zealots, the rules and norms that made the American middle class possible were undermined and dismantled. The clock was turned back on a century of economic progress, making greed good, workers powerless, and the market all-powerful while weaponizing nostalgia, lifting up an oligarchy that served only its own interests, and leaving the huge majority of Americans with dwindling economic prospects and hope.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhy and how did America take such a wrong turn? In this deeply researched and brilliantly woven cultural, economic, and political chronicle, Kurt Andersen offers a fresh, provocative, and eye-opening history of America’s undoing, naming names, showing receipts, and unsparingly assigning blame—to the radical right in economics and the law, the high priests of high finance, a complacent and complicit Establishment, and liberal “useful idiots,” among whom he includes himself.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Express","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43566979285066,"sku":"6617ar","price":12.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/9101\/8826\/files\/6617ar.jpg?v=1777948040","url":"https:\/\/www.bookexpress.nz\/products\/evil-geniuses-by-kurt-andersen","provider":"Book Express","version":"1.0","type":"link"}