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Alex Steinweiss : the inventor of the modern album cover

In debt we trust : America before the bubble bursts

This hard-hitting documentary investigates why so many Americans - college and high school students in particular - are being strangled by debt. Zeroing in on how the mall has replaced the factory as America's dominant economic engine, Emmy Award-winning former ABC News and CNN producer Danny Schechter shows how college students are being forced to pay higher interest on loans while graduating, on average, with more than $20,000 in consumer debt. The film empowers as it enrages, delivering an accessible and fascinating introduction to what former Reagan advisor Kevin Phillips has called "the debt-and-credit industrial complex."

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The politics of rich and poor : wealth and the American electorate in the Reagan aftermath

After eight years of economic polarization under Ronald Reagan, during which armies of the homeless took to city streets and hordes of the newly superrich took to yachts and country clubs, preeminent political consultant Kevin Phillips assesses the political consequences. Illustrated.