A brilliant and comprehensive study of class struggle in the United States. Prisoners of the American DreamisMike Davis**’s brilliant exegesis of a persistent and major analytical problem for Marxist historians and political economists: Why has the world’s most industrially advanced nation never spa...

A brilliant and comprehensive study of class struggle in the United States. Prisoners of the American DreamisMike Davis**’s brilliant exegesis of a persistent and major analytical problem for Marxist historians and political economists: Why has the world’s most industrially advanced nation never spawned a mass party of the working class?

This series of essays surveys the history of the American bourgeois democratic revolution from its Jacksonian beginnings to the rise of the New Right and the re-election ofRonald Reagan , concluding with some bracing thoughts on the prospects for progressive politics in the United States.