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Summary: too left-wing
Review: Gets more and more biased the closer it gets to present. Way too much space is devoted to protest movements. Whole book takes the stance that more government is needed for redistribution of wealth without offering other viewpoints. For instance, The section on Reagan and Free Enterprise on page 1118 says that the net effect of the Reagan tax cuts was to "make the tax structure more regressive" and "further skew" the distribution of wealth "in favor of the rich". This however does not point out that the rich were still paying a grossly higher percentage of their income than the lower brackets. Or that since the more prosperous pay a higher percentages and a far larger overall amount this makes them entitled to recieve a higher percentage or amount back. The book makes it sound like the tax cuts were stealing from the poor to give to the rich when the government was just allowing people to keep a large % of their income. While I thought Volume I (before 1877) was good the authors really need to lay off the politics in Volume II
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