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Stakes Is High: Life After the American Dream

byMychal Denzel Smith

Mychal Denzel Smith uses Stakes Is High to investigate life After the American Dream through a carefully framed political study. The narrative identifies the people, decisions, and pressures that shaped the subject, then places those developments within the connected fields of political science and social science. The result avoids a single easy lesson, emphasizing instead how circumstances, institutions, and individual choices interacted over time. What emerges is a nuanced account of the subject, its immediate consequences, and its wider meaning.

Publisher

PublicAffairs

Publication date

2020

Format

Print edition

Pages

224

ISBN

9781568588735