"This book began as a political history of the 60s and 70s, with a particular focus on why Americans have let our nation decline in almost every measurable way since then, and sometimes even cheered on those who engineered that decline. I wanted to tell it the way I saw it growing up, watching many of my working-class Irish relatives forsake the Democrats, a party they saw as forsaking them. But my family's story, and that of the Democratic Party, turned out to be more complicated"--
- ISBN10 1118237242
- ISBN13 9781118237243
- Publish Date 30 July 2012 (first published 26 July 2012)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint John Wiley & Sons Inc
- Format eBook
- Pages 272
- Language English