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PRAISE FOR

The Way Back

The Way Back makes a persuasive case that social mobility, fundamental to the American Dream, has eroded, and that people both on the left and right need to deal seriously with the problem of inequality. Frank Buckley marshals tremendous data and insight in a compelling study.

FRANCIS FUKUYAMA

With his signature combination of erudition, imagination, and wit, F.H. Buckley has produced a game-changing contribution to the inequality literature.

CHRISTOPHER DEMUTH, Hudson Institute

Frank Buckley offers a provocative and important commentary on the underlying problems of inequality and immobility. He dissects whos to blame, what to do, and what not to dowith scholarship, wit, and insight.

ROBERT A. LEVY, Chairman, Cato Institute

The Way Back is full of marvelously shrewd observation, as well as scholarship, both aimed at subjects of the greatest importance.

JONATHAN CLARK

PRAISE FOR

The Once and Future King

A masterpiece. American Thinker

Compellingand compellingly readable. Reason

His prose explodes with energy. The Weekly Standard

No U.S. political scientist has achieved what F.H. Buckley does in this ambitious book. Times Literary Supplement

2016, 2017 by F.H. Buckley

Preface to the paperback edition 2017 by F.H. Buckley

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of Encounter Books, 900 Broadway, Suite 601,

New York, New York, 10003.

First American edition published in 2016 by Encounter Books, an activity of Encounter for Culture and Education, Inc., a nonprofit, tax-exempt corporation.

Encounter Books website address: www.encounterbooks.com

Manufactured in the United States and printed on acid-free paper. The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of ANSI/NISO Z39.481992 (R 1997) (Permanence of Paper).

First paperback edition published in 2017.

THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS HAS CATALOGUED

THE HARDCOVER EDITION AS FOLLOWS:

Names: Buckley, F. H. (Francis H.), 1948 author.

Title: The Way Back: Restoring the Promise of America / F.H. Buckley.

Description: New York: Encounter Books, 2016. | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2015028091 | ISBN 9781594039607 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Social mobilityUnited States. | American Dream. | Elites Social sciences)United States. | United StatesEconomic conditions. | United StatesSocial conditions. | United StatesPolitics and government.

Classification: LCC HN90.S65 B83 2016 | DDC 305.5/130973dc23

LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015028091

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Contents

Dick is... smart enough to profit from the books simple messages: that all labor is respectable, that poverty is no bar to advancement, that getting ahead requires education and saving ones money..

ALL PHOTOS: WIKIMEDIA COMMONS

The Carters Grove [pictured above], Sabine Hall, and Shirley plantations of the Carters, the Westover of the Byrds, the Stratford of the Lees and the Mount Vernons left no doubt that their owners were masters of large fortunes..

Lincoln joked that he had not a platform to stand on, whereupon someone brought him an empty dry-goods box..

Solving the travelling salesman problem [pictured left] turns out to be crucially important in keeping costs down..

[Self-driving] vehicles rely on Google Maps and Street View as well as radar and video messages that are fed into a computer, and have been said to provide a safer drive than any a human driver could provide..

In one well-known family, then, the daughter represented not merely an r of 0.5, but a sum of 2.5 over only three generations..

A costumed Knight of the Swan challenged the Knight of the Golden Lion to battle.. Photo: The Challenge, Eglinton Tournament, by James Henry Nixon.

[Booker T. Washington] never attended school, though he sometimes went as far as the schoolhouse door with his white mistresses, carrying their books..

I can see ye dont know what it means to be up to yer neck in nuns.. Photo: Graduation at St. Josephs School, Petersburg VA.

He begins as a greenhorn, unable to speak English, but soon finds himself selling hardware from a pushcart on the lower East Side.. Photo: Mulberry Street, New York City.

BOOKS TAKE YEARS TO WRITE. MINE DO, AT LEAST. The Way Back was published in April 2016, but I had begun it well before that years election campaign. I hadnt been thinking about Donald Trump or Bernie Sanders. Instead, I had Obama, Mitt Romney and the Republican Establishment in my sights.

I knew that change must come. Like blind and deaf wrestlers, our two political parties were locked in clumsy battle, as spectators shouted warnings that neither ever heard. What both parties missed was how the American Dream had faded. We had thought that this was the country where, whoever you were, wherever you came from, you could get ahead. More importantly, we had believed that this was a country where your children would have it better than you did. And we had been wrong.

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