1980-

Jeanne Marie Laskas reveals personal stories of working class Americans, including coal miners, cowboys, and air traffic controllers.

Presents an examination of the history of the political, economic, and social issues of Latin America, including information on their origins, causes and effects.

"Scholar and journalist Marc Lamont Hill presents [an] ... analysis of race and class by examining a growing crisis in America: the existence of a group of citizens who are made vulnerable, exploitable and disposable through the machinery of unregulated capitalism, public policy, and social practice [and] ... shows how this Nobody class has emerged over time and how forces in America have worked to preserve and exploit it in ways that are both humiliating and harmful"--.

1960's activist Tom Hayden, examines the anti-war and peace movements of that era, their legacies, and how it actually paved the way toward the election of Barack Obama in 2008.

Bill Moyers presents his own views on what is wrong in American society and maintains that democracy is being replaced by government of, by, and for a corporate ruling class.

Argues that the entertainment industry, academic orthodoxy, and political ideology have fostered the creation of the middle mind--a failure of imagination and acceptance of mediocrity in mainstream America, and looks at the manifestation of the middle mind in several areas of popular culture.

Uses the metaphor of a disease to explore how society has been affected by Americans' obsessive quest for material gain.

Discusses what the author sees as the blending of the square, practical bourgeoisie and the artistic, intellectual bohemians into a new social ethos, and describes the ideology, manners, and morals of this elite class.