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"The New Politics of Inequality."
W.W. Norton and Co., 500 Fifth Ave., New York, N.Y. 101 10.288 pp. $15.95.
Author: Thomas Byrne Edsall
When Ronald Reagan won election to the White House in 1980, the nation seemed to have shifted to the political Right. Edsall, a Washington Post re-porter, argues that the shift actually occurred the mid-1970s. By then, he contends, both the Republicans and the Democrats had largely de- serted the poor and t...