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Equality.
by William Ryan
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0394504933
- ISBN 13
- 9780394504933
- Seller
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Oregon City, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
New York, NY Random House: Pantheon Books, 1981. Hardcover First Ed, so stated. First Ed, so stated. Near Fine in Near Fine DJ: Both book and DJ show only minute indications of use. Book shows barely discernible indications of shelving at the bottom edge of the boards; several faint flecks of foxing at the top and bottom of the quarter cloth at the top and bottom edges; binding shows the slightest lean, while remaining perfectly secure; else flawless; text clean. DJ price faint toning to the white background field of the rear panel; mild rubbing; price unclipped; mylar-protected. Overall, very close to 'As New'. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 8vo. 239pp. Hardback with DJ. In this timely book William Ryan, author of Blaming the Victim, analyzes how and why the "vulnerable majority" of Americans, though "created equal," lives under the permanent and shaming threat of inequality. While noting that we formally exalt equality in such documents as the Declaration of Independence and even in everyday expressions about fair play, equal opportunity, and the common good, Ryan graphically shows how we nevertheless "play the game" in various spheres of public life by rules that divide people into winners and losers, superior and inferior rules that, in short, institutionalize inequality. A critique of this inhospitable system of beliefs, Equality also suggests that the foundations of true equality are not alien to the American tradition.
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- Seller
- Black Cat Hill Books (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 42306
- Title
- Equality.
- Author
- William Ryan
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Ed, so stated.
- ISBN 10
- 0394504933
- ISBN 13
- 9780394504933
- Publisher
- Random House: Pantheon Books,
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1981.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Social Histories; Urban Life; Social Classes and Castes; Social History; Poverty; Class Theory;
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