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Steven Brill: Trump Didn’t Break It but Can’t Fix It Either

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In an interview with The Daily Beast, the ‘Tailspin’ author argues that the American Dream worked for the generations after WWII, and then they pulled the ladder up behind them.

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Journalist Steven Brill’s new book about how the country got into some of its biggest and most vexing problems in the last half-century and how we’re on the verge of fixing many of them is surprisingly optimistic in a very 2018, through-the-looking-glass sort of way.

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