Now on booktv Lawrence Samuel exam the past, current, and future state of the american middle class. The author reports that a strong middle class emerged following world war ii in the 1950s. And began to eroded in the succeeding decades. This is a little over an hour. Host im going jump in. I took a chronological approach to the story. As youll see. I went decade by decade. I picked up the story right after world war ii. I feel like thats when the middle class, as we know it, rose in numbers and power. Then go through the 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s and up to today and wrap up. Thats basically the approach i took to the book just track with the book. Basically, why i wrote the book theres a lot of chatter these days about the middle class not surprising. Someone talking about the middle class a lot, of course, is president obama like most bases. Politicians. I counted twentd times he mentioned the middle class in his speech a couple of years ago and. And more recently in the 2012 state of the
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