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Boiling Points
by Phillips, Kevin
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Good/Good
- ISBN 10
- 0679404619
- ISBN 13
- 9780679404613
- Seller
-
Newton, Massachusetts, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Random House, 1993. Stated First Edition Signed and inscribed on fep. 8vo size hardcover with dust jacket; 307 bright, white pages. From jacket: "Kevin Phillips shows how the populist explosion revealed a powerful new political force: widespread frustration over the decline of middle-class prosperity and the threat to the American dream... (This book) shows in dismaying details what has happened to the middle class since the 1970s in disposable income, earnings, home values, job prospects, public services, assets and net worth, pension safety and health insurance, and the next generation's prospects of enjoying the same rising living standards and upward mobility as its parents had. And it was not a natural result of adverse global trends but of deliberate political choices." Some sunning to, wear and edgewear to jacket, top of book is sunned underneath jacket; crease to inside back flap of jacket, some on rear endpaper and inside back cover. . Signed by Author. First. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Charity Bookstall
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 006036
- Title
- Boiling Points
- Author
- Phillips, Kevin
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- First
- ISBN 10
- 0679404619
- ISBN 13
- 9780679404613
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1993
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- signed; autographed; First Edition; 1st Edition; politics;
- Bookseller catalogs
- Politics; Signed; First Editions; Sociology;
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