The Dream and the Nightmare: The Sixties' Legacy to the Underclass
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Myron Magnets The Dream and the Nightmare argues that the radical transformation of American culture that took place in the 1960s brought todays urban underclass into existence. Changed beliefs and lifestyle experimentation among the white middle class produced often catastrophic changes in attitudes toward marriage and childbearing the work ethic and dependency among those at the bottom of the social ladder and closed down their pathways to better lives. Texas Governor George W. Bushs presidential campaign recently highlighted the continuing importance of The Dream and the Nightmare when Bush told the Wall Street Journal it was the most important book hed ever read with the exception of the Bible. Bushs chief strategist Karl Rove cites the book as a road map to the governors philosophy of "compassionate conservatism.
