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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><i>Prisoners of the American Dream</i> is Mike 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 of Ronal Reagan, concluding with some bracing thoughts on the prospects for progressive politics in the United States.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"One of the most uncompromising books about American political economy ever written--brilliant, provocative, and exhaustively researched."<br><b> --</b><i><b>Village Voice Literary Supplement</b></i> <p/> "Impressive--a perceptive and rigorous structural analysis."<br><b> --David Montgomery, <i>Nation</i></b> <p/> "Only a fool can disregard the implications of what he is arguing."<br><b> --<i>Social History</i></b> <p/> "Provocative and illuminating."<br><b> --<i>Journal of American Studies</i></b> <p/> "One of the most trenchant and original analyses of American politics."<br><b> --<i>Socialist Review</i></b> <p/>"<i>Prisoners of the American Dream</i> established [Davis's] record of candidly examining the prospects for progressive social change and the dismal fate of organized labor in the United States, with its lack of a party or power."<br><b>--Micah Uetricht, <i>The Nation</i></b><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Mike Davis</b> is the author of several books including <i>Planet of Slums</i>, <i>City of Quartz</i>, <i>Ecology of Fear</i>, <i>Late Victorian Holocausts</i>, and <i>Magical Urbanism</i>. He was recently awarded a MacArthur Fellowship. He lives in Papa'aloa, Hawaii.

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