The authors spent a year collecting information, and the first edition
went to press in 1982. In other words, this excellent compilation is only
able to spotlight the first year of what turned out to be a disastrous twelve
years of Republican mischief. As Nader points out, "Over a fourth of the top
one hundred Reagan Administration officials have net worths of seven figures,
or more.... Little of this wealth was inherited. The nouveau riche status
may help to explain the absence of noblesse oblige which has characterized
the paternalism of the Old Rich who entered politics." Ten years later the
rich are richer, the middle class is poorer, and mainstream journalists are
beginning to notice that they missed the biggest story of the 1980s.
ISBN 0-394-71495-4
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