Pulitzer Prize-winner Hedrick Smith focuses on the history of economic inequality in America. While Stiglitz's book assesses the current economic system, this one shows how things got that way in the first place. Sparing neither political party, Smith shows how major changes that started during Jimmy Carter鈥檚 presidency escalated after Carter left office and helped create the extreme class stratification we are experiencing today. The current economic system, he argues, has very little room for a middle class. That鈥檚 why it keeps shrinking, and will continue to shrink unless Americans demand a significant change in the way we鈥檙e governed.
