"With unprecedented student debt keeping an entire generation from realizing the "American Dream," this book sounds a warning about how that debt may undermine both higher education and our democracy"-- Provided by publisher.

The American debtor as worker, consumer, and citizen -- The ideology of homeowner democracy and trust in government -- The government's creation and destruction of the American university -- Responses to the crisis : the new debtor movements -- The sin of debt and the hope of forgiveness in the twenty-first century.