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The St. Louis County Library Foundation’s Westfall Politics & History Series Presents Renowned Journalist and Historian Yoni Appelbaum

 
Author of “Stuck: How the Privileged and the Propertied Broke the Engine of American Opportunity”
 

Yoni Appelbaum is a deputy executive editor of The Atlantic and a social and cultural historian. In “Stuck,” Appelbaum asks: How did America cease to be the land of opportunity? Though for most of world history, your prospects were tied to where you were born, Americans came up with a revolutionary idea: If you didn’t like your lot in life, you could find a better location and reinvent yourself there. For two hundred years, Americans' mobility was the linchpin of economic and social opportunity. “Stuck” demonstrates how zoning laws, raised housing prices and deepened political divides have trapped generations of people in poverty.  

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Books provided by Left Bank Books.

 

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