Tailspin: The People and Forces Behind America’s Fifty-Year Fall–and Those Fighting to Reverse It Audiobook (Free)

With this revelatory narrative within the years 1967 to 2017, Steven Brill gives us a stunningly cogent picture of the broken program in the centre of our society. He displays us how, during the last half century, America’s primary values-meritocracy, innovation, due process, free talk, and even democracy itself-have in some way were able to power its drop into dysfunction. They possess isolated our greatest and brightest, whose positions at the very top have never been more secure or more remote.

The result has about Tailspin: THE INDIVIDUALS and Forces Behind America’s Fifty-Year Fall–and Those Fighting to Reverse It been an erosion of responsibility and accountability, an epidemic of shortsightedness, an extremely hollow economic and political center, and an incredible number of Americans gripped by apathy and hopelessness. By analyzing individuals and makes behind the rise of big-money lobbying, legal and financial engineering, the demise of private-sector unions, and a hamstrung bureaucracy, Brill answers the question on everyone’s brain: How do we find yourself in this manner? Finally, he introduces us to people working silently and effectively to correct the damages. At once a medical diagnosis of our national ills, a history of their advancement, and a prescription for any brighter potential, Tailspin is normally a work of riveting journalism-and a welcome antidote to political despair.