Copyright © 2020 by Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson
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The Library of Congress has cataloged the printed edition as follows:
Names: Hacker, Jacob S., author. | Pierson, Paul, author.
Title: Let them eat Tweets : how the right rules in an age of extreme inequality / Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson.
Description: First edition. | New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2020. | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2019057133 | ISBN 9781631496844 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781631496851 (epub)
Subjects: LCSH: Conservatism—United States. |
Populism—United States. | Plutocracy—United States. | Polarization (Social sciences)—Political aspects—
United States. | United States—Politics and government—2017–
Classification: LCC JC573.2.U6 H33 2020 | DDC 320.520973—dc23
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