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A captivating memoir about tutoring for Manhattan's elite, revealing how a life of extreme wealth both helps and harms the children of the one percent.
Ben orders daily room service while living in a five-star hotel. Olivia collects luxury brand sneakers worn by celebrities. Dakota jets off to Rome when she needs to avoid drama at school.
Welcome to the inner circle of New York's richest families, where academia is an obsession,...
Ben orders daily room service while living in a five-star hotel. Olivia collects luxury brand sneakers worn by celebrities. Dakota jets off to Rome when she needs to avoid drama at school.
Welcome to the inner circle of New York's richest families, where academia is an obsession,...
Publisher
Amazon Studios
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
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Simultaneously a deeply personal journey, rigorous historical essay, and raucously entertaining expose, this bears witness to the global boom bust economy, as well as the corrupted American Dream and the human costs of capitalism, narcissism, and greed.
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Publisher
Spiegel & Grau
Pub. Date
2011
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xiv, 281 p. ; 25 cm.
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English
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Suze Orman, the woman millions of Americans have turned to for financial advice, delivers a master class on personal finance and teaches her readers that the New American Dream is not the things they accumulate, but the confidence that comes from knowing that which they've worked so hard for cannot be taken away from them.
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English
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America is becoming a class-based society.
It is now conventional to focus on the wealth of the top 1 percent—especially the top 0.01 percent—and how the ultrarich are concentrating income and prosperity, while incomes for most other Americans are stagnant. But the most important, consequential, and widening gap in American society is between the upper-middle class and everyone else.
Reeves defines the upper-middle class
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"We Need to Talk: A Memoir About Wealth gives voice to an experience millions share, but no one discusses: what it's like to be rich. The book is an honest, personal story that explores the hidden impact of wealth on identity, relationships, and sense of place in the world. Too often, we link net-worth to self-worth and keep quiet about how our finances make us feel. Money is a taboo subject. The author hopes We Need to Talk becomes a catalyst for...
7) What went wrong: how the 1% hijacked the American middle class... and what other countries got right
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Publisher
BenBella Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
563 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Publisher
FilmRise
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (73 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
It is the definitive discourse with Noam Chomsky, widely regarded as the most important intellectual alive, on the defining characteristic of our time, the deliberate concentration of wealth and power in the hands of a select few. Through interviews filmed over four years, Chomsky unpacks the principles that have brought us to the crossroads of historically unprecedented inequality, tracing a half-century of policies designed to favor the wealthiest...
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In Breaking Through Power, Nader draws from a lifetime waging--and often winning--David vs. Goliath battles against big corporations and the United States government. In this succinct, Tom Paine-style wake-up call, the iconic consumer advocate highlights the success stories of fellow Americans who organize change and work together to derail the many ways in which wealth manipulates politics, labor, media, the environment, and the quality of national...
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