The Sinking Middle Class: A Political History of Debt, Misery, and the Drift to the Right

"As the nation burns and the future appears uncertain, David Roediger delivers another incisive, timely, clear-eyed analysis of class and race in America. His point is clear: another world won't be built by pollsters or slick election strategies aimed at saving the middle class. We have to grow a movement. " –Robin D. G. Kelley

"A consistently pathbreaking historian." –Monthly Review

"No contemporary intellectual has better illuminated the interwoven social histories and conceptual dimensions of race and class domination." –Nikhil Singh

"Brilliant and insightful... Explores the ways in which appeals to save the middle class in electoral politics harm the very constituencies they purport to help." –George Lipsitz