American mojo, lost and found: restoring our middle class before the world blows by

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part I. Lost

Chapter 1. Paradise Lost: Misplacing America's middle class-the beginning

Chapter 2. The Invasion: A postwar middle-class miracle

Chapter 3. Chocolate Milk: First cracks in the façade

Chapter 4. Dream Stealer: The uninvited demand their rights

Chapter 5. Love/Haight: Youth in revolt

Chapter 6. The Three Uglies: Nixon's hydra of economic woes

Chapter 7. Flying the Hump: Surviving the Republican wreck

Chapter 8. Tall Paul and the Tamers: Reagan reconsidered

Part II. Found

Chapter 9. The One Percent Problem: Not the invisible hand, but the invisible handshake

Chapter 10. The One Percent Solution: A time for wealth to lead the charge

Chapter 11. The Renaissance: Living a dream deferred

Chapter 12. The Zone: Confronting dragons of poverty and winning

Chapter 13. The March of the Black Middle Class: Return of economic segregation

Chapter 14. American Matriarchy: A new engine of the middle class

Chapter 15. The Latino Generation: An American super-minority

Chapter 16. G, Myself, and I: America's place in global manufacture

Chapter 17. LA Grippe: The United States of underemployment

Chapter 18. Back to Work: The new abnormal of job creation

Chapter 19. Middle Earth: The world's exploding middle class

Chapter 20. The Cyclone: High winds in the developing world

Chapter 21. America's Choice: Stay the course or restore our middle class by immersion in the emerging world

Chapter 22. Mojo Found: How you change everything

Notations: Sources and further reading

Index