{"product_id":"the-age-of-abundance-how-prosperity-transformed-americas-politics-and-culture-9780060747671","title":"The Age of Abundance: How Prosperity Transformed America's Politics and Culture","description":"\u003cp\u003eUntil the 1950s, the struggle to feed, clothe, and employ the nation drove most of American political life. From slavery to the New Deal, political parties organized around economic interests and engaged in fervent debate over the best allocation of agonizingly scarce resources. But with the explosion of the nation's economy in the years after World War II, a new set of needs began to emerge--a search for meaning and self-expression on one side, and a quest for stability and a return to traditional values on the other.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eThe Age of Abundance\u003c\/em\u003e, Brink Lindsey offers a bold reinterpretation of the latter half of the twentieth century. In this sweeping history of postwar America, the tumult of racial and gender politics, the rise of the counterculture, and the conservative revolution of the 1980s and 1990s are portrayed in an entirely new light. Readers will learn how and why the contemporary ideologies of left and right emerged in response to the novel challenges of mass prosperity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe political ideas that created the culture wars, however, have now grown obsolete. As the \u003cem\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/em\u003e aptly summarized Lindsey's take on the contradictions of American politics, \"Republicans want to go home to the United States of the 1950s while Democrats want to work there.\" Struggling to replace today's stale conflicts is a new consensus that mixes the social freedom of the left with the economic freedom of the right into a potentially powerful ethos of libertarianism. \u003cem\u003eThe Age of Abundance\u003c\/em\u003e reveals the secret formula of this remarkable alchemy. The book is a breathtaking reevaluation of our recent past--and will change the way we think about the future.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLindsey, Brink:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eBrink Lindsey is vice president for research at the Cato Institute. He is the author of \u003cem\u003eAgainst the Dead Hand: The Uncertain Struggle for Global Capitalism\u003c\/em\u003e, which the \u003cem\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/em\u003e called compelling and excellent and the \u003cem\u003eEconomist\u003c\/em\u003e declared was full of elegantly argued good sense. His articles have appeared in numerous leading newspapers and opinion magazines such as the \u003cem\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe New Republic\u003c\/em\u003e, and the \u003cem\u003eNational Review\u003c\/em\u003e. He lives with his family near Washington, D.C.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper Business","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50459888058642,"sku":"9780060747671","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_17975582-df3e-497a-b186-ccf332425b5e.jpg?v=1730011892","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-age-of-abundance-how-prosperity-transformed-americas-politics-and-culture-9780060747671","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}