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Shortlisted for the }Financial Times & McKinsey{ Business Book of the Year Award 2016 and a }New York Times{ bestseller, it weaves together a vivid narrative, economic analysis and historical anecdotes to challenge the view that economic growth will continue unabated in the US. Now in paperback

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In the century after the Civil War, an economic revolution improved the American standard of living in ways previously unimaginable. Electric lighting, indoor plumbing, motor vehicles, air travel, and television transformed households and workplaces. But has that era of unprecedented growth come to an end? Weaving together a vivid narrative, histor