“... it was hoped, even those at the bottom of the heap would have enough for a decent life. Even under Reagan, supply-siders reached for the rhetoric of ‘trickledown’ to justify corporate tax breaks. And modern ‘sufficientarians’, who agree that policy should aim at getting everyone up to a minimum threshold rather than at full equality, also think growth ...”

“... family, the Kellys, who came to Boston from Ireland before the Second World War. Eileen married Ronald Charles Spahr of Philadelphia, the son of German immigrants, and in the late 1950s the couple moved to a three-bedroom colonial house in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, which is fairly close to Philadelphia. Everyone you ask speaks of the Spahrs as a classic ...”