eir backyards, I saw the evidence of prosperity distributed equally among the social classes", shortly after he reminds us, "When I was growing up, it was assumed that America's shared prosperity was the natural endpoint of our economy's development" (McClelland, pars. 3-5). This confused me because based on the authors stories and remarks on his early days, he gives his readers every right to assume he believes those where Americas good days in an economical sense; yet, he holds himself by the throat by indirectly asserting that's where our economy went wrong and that it was a common "assumption". So, what's his point? That they knew all along and just decided to have fun with their prosperity until it's almost too late, or that he only wishes things would run that way again without the effects of today's current economy? Lastly, McClelland complicates matters further when he writes, "America's first Great Recession – was the beginning of the end for the bourgeois proletariat.
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