
Glass House: The 1% Economy and the Shattering of the All-American Town (Brian Alexander)
The Worthy House (Charles Haywood)
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A Brief History of Lancaster, Pennsylvania
The owner of anchor hockey, Cerberus Capital Management, is a top economic adviser to Donald Trump. The union was cowed and forced to repeatedly retrench wages and benefits in order to meet the demands of voracious new owners. One result of this ruination wrought by financial engineering was that working at anchor hockey became a low prestige option where nobody ambitious wanted to work. If among those disappeared virtues were hard work and thrift, as Alexander says, now modesty was out, a quizzitiveness was in.
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