{"product_id":"stuck-how-the-privileged-and-the-propertied-broke-the-engine-of-american-opportunity-9780593449318","title":"Stuck: How the Privileged and the Propertied Broke the Engine of American Opportunity","description":"\u003cb\u003eHow did America cease to be the land of opportunity?\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLONGLISTED FOR THE PORCHLIGHT BUSINESS BOOK AWARD\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWe take it for granted that good neighborhoods--with good schools and good housing--are only accessible to the wealthy. But in America, this wasn't always the case. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThough for most of world history, your prospects were tied to where you were born, Americans came up with a revolutionary idea: If you didn't like your lot in life, you could find a better location and reinvent yourself there. Americans moved to new places with unprecedented frequency, and, for two hundred years, that remarkable mobility was the linchpin of American economic and social opportunity. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this illuminating debut, Yoni Appelbaum, historian and journalist for \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e, shows us that this idea has been under attack since reformers first developed zoning laws to ghettoize Chinese Americans in nineteenth-century Modesto, California. The century of legal segregation that ensued--from the zoning laws enacted to force Jewish workers back into New York's Lower East Side to the private-sector discrimination and racist public policy that trapped Black families in Flint, Michigan to Jane Jacobs' efforts to protect her vision of the West Village--has raised housing prices, deepened political divides, emboldened bigots, and trapped generations of people in poverty. Appelbaum shows us that these problems have a common explanation: people can't move as readily as they used to. They are, in a word, stuck. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCutting through more than a century of mythmaking, \u003ci\u003eStuck\u003c\/i\u003e tells a vivid, surprising story of the people and ideas that caused our economic and social sclerosis and lays out common-sense ways to get Americans moving again.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Yoni Appelbaum\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Random House Trade\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/24\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.57lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.01h x 5.32w x 0.92d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780593449318\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eYoni Appelbaum \u003c\/b\u003eis a deputy executive editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e and a social and cultural historian of the United States. Before joining \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e, he was a lecturer on history and literature at Harvard University. He previously taught at Babson College and at Brandeis University, where he received his PhD in American history.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Yoni Appelbaum \/ Paperback \/ English","offer_id":47733889990813,"sku":"9780593449318","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/files\/img_07d4e55e-acbd-48e3-887a-b12011aefaed.jpg?v=1773737924","url":"https:\/\/booksdeli.com\/products\/stuck-how-the-privileged-and-the-propertied-broke-the-engine-of-american-opportunity-9780593449318","provider":"booksdeli.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}