The Age of Abundance: How Prosperity Transformed America's Politics and CultureA ground breaking history of the last 50 years that explains the rise of the conservative right and success of the lefts values both as a product of our prosperity. Until the 1950s, the struggle to feed, clothe, and employ the nation drove most of American political life. From slavery to the New Deal, political parties organized around economic interests and engaged in fervent debate over the best allocation of agonizingly scarce resources. But with