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1 online resource |
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Electronic book. |
Summary |
"This is a book about me and, likely, you, too. I am British by birth, but I have lived in the United States since 2012 and became a citizen in late 2016. (Also, I was born on the Fourth of July.) There are lots of reasons I have made America my home. But one of them is the American ideal of opportunity. I always hated the walls created by social class distinctions in the United Kingdom. The American idea of a classless society is, to me, a deeply attractive one. It has been disheartening to learn that the class structure of my new homeland is, if anything, more rigid than the one I left behind, and especially so at the top"-- Page 5. |
Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. LaVergne Brookings Institution Press 2017 Available via World Wide Web. |
Subject |
Middle class -- United States.
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Income distribution -- United States.
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Electronic books.
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Added Author |
OverDrive, Inc., distributor.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Reeves, Richard V., author. Dream hoarders 1st Edition. Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, 2017 9780815729129 (DLC) 2017010289 |
ISBN |
9780815729136 (electronic bk.) |
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