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DESCRIPTION:Join local author Jim Tankersley Thursday\, October 22 at 7 p.m
 . via Zoom as he discusses his new book\, The Riches of This Land.
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Lecture: The Riches of this Land on Oct 22\, 2020
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 s.alexandriava.gov/Calendar/Detail.aspx?si=32314\n\nJoin local author Jim 
 Tankersley Thursday\, October 22 at 7 p.m. via Zoom as he discusses his ne
 w book\, The Riches of This Land.\nOn a reporting journey from the rocket 
 suburbs of Los Angeles to the tobacco fields of North Carolina\, Jim Tanke
 rsley traces the origins and destiny of an American middle class that is u
 nder siege in his new book\, The Riches of This Land. For nearly two centu
 ries\, the best jobs in the United States were walled off to everyone but 
 white men. After World War II\, women\, immigrants\, and black men began t
 o tear those walls down\, helping to build the greatest middle class in hu
 man history. But the steady disappearance of good jobs\, followed by two o
 nce-in-a-lifetime economic crises\, eroded that middle class and locked mi
 llions of people out of the American Dream. History shows how to lift work
 ers up again\, but not the history that elite white men have sold for deca
 des. Tankersley's vivid people-driven storytelling\, supported by balanced
  cutting-edge research\, reveals a path to revival and the essential heroe
 s of what was\, and can again be\, a great American economy.\n\nJim Tanker
 sley is an economics reporter for the New York Times. He covers the econom
 ic policies of the Trump administration and their effects on working peopl
 e\, the long-running and persistent inequities in the American economy\, a
 nd\, most recently\, the nation's spiral into recession amid the coronavir
 us pandemic.  Prior to the Times\, Tankersley was the policy and politics 
 editor at Vox\, economic policy correspondent for the Washington Post\, an
 d economic and political reporter at the National Journal. He started his 
 career with stints at The Oregonian\, The Rocky Mountain News\, and The To
 ledo Blade. \nThe lecture is sponsored by the Office of Historic Alexandri
 a. Guests will receive an email with the Zoom meeting link\, Meeting ID\, 
 and password by noon on October 22. Ticket sales will close at 4 p.m.\n___
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