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taking a bath in that tub

[...] Watching Alex move his eyes over the pile of objects stirred something in Sasha. She put her arms around him from behind, and he turned, surprised, but willing. She kissed him full on the mouth, then undid his zipper and kicked off her boots. Alex tried to lead her toward the other room, wher…

—p.15 A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
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there is no Tycoon Party

There is no Tycoon Party in the United States to impose ideological uniformity on a group of billionaires who, by their very nature as übermensch, march to their own drummers and differ on many matters. Some are philanthropically minded, others parsimonious; some are pietistic, others indifferent. …

—p.227 Mongrel Firebugs and Men of Property: Capitalism and Class Conflict in American History Playing God: The Rebirth of Family Capitalism (223) by Steve Fraser
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the bone and sinew of social protest

Deindustrialization laid low the industrial working class and the labor movement. Lamentable, perhaps—but why should it matter, some might ask? That question itself is evidence of how much our world has lost. For a hundred years the labor movement was the bone and sinew of social protest against th…

—p.171 The Age of Acquiescence (163) by Steve Fraser
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a second miracle of disaccumulation

Slaves, artisans, homesteaders, European peasants, small-town storekeepers, Southern hillbillies, and prairie sodbusters weren’t consigned to reservations. But they were the raw material, as were Native American buffalo hunters and subsistence agrarians, of a process of primitive accumulation which…

—p.119 Two Gilded Ages (115) by Steve Fraser
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a second miracle of disaccumulation

Slaves, artisans, homesteaders, European peasants, small-town storekeepers, Southern hillbillies, and prairie sodbusters weren’t consigned to reservations. But they were the raw material, as were Native American buffalo hunters and subsistence agrarians, of a process of primitive accumulation which…

—p.119 Two Gilded Ages (115) by Steve Fraser