Steven Brill, "Tailspin"

Steven Brill discusses his book, "Tailspin" at Politics and Prose on 6/1/18.

Brill’s response to the national political malaise is a deeply researched, well-reasoned, and fair-minded diagnosis of the current ills, a history of their development, and a prescription for a better future. Covering the years 1967 to 2017, Brill traces the simultaneous decline of America’s core values—meritocracy, innovation, due process, free speech, and even democracy itself—and the rise of big-money lobbying, legal and financial engineering, the demise of private-sector unions, and a hamstrung bureaucracy. Profiling the people and forces behind this shift, Brill, an award-winning journalist and author of America’s Bitter Pill and Class Warfare, shows that both parties bear responsibility for bringing the country to its current crisis. Similarly, he finds many progressives and conservatives already finding ways to work together to rebuild a unified country.

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STEVEN BRILL has written for The New Yorker, Time, The New York Times Magazine, Esquire, New York, and Fortune. He founded and ran Court TV, The American Lawyer magazine, ten regional legal newspapers, and Brill's Content magazine. Brill was the author of Time's March 4, 2013, special report "Bitter Pill: Why Medical Bills Are Killing Us," for which he won the 2014 National Magazine Award for Public Service, and of the 2015 bestseller America's Bitter Pill. He has regularly appeared as an expert analyst on NBC, CBS, and CNN. He teaches journalism at Yale, where he founded the Yale Journalism Initiative to enable talented young people to become journalists. In 2018, he co-founded NewsGuard, which rates the legitimacy of online news sites. He lives in New York City.

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