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Pity the Billionaire: The Hard-Times Swindle and the Unlikely Comeback of the Right [Hardcover] reviews:
- Absolutely right on !
This book captures the essence of the great paradox and also the great enigma of how via some sleight of hand the correct wing and also the extreme free market believers are able to utterly reverse historical reality. Any sober information of what brought us to the economic chaos and inequality we are now experiencing would readily recognize that the dearth of logic regulation and also the ideology of Reagan and Bush led us down this path. The author eloquently points out this dichotomy and also explains how the correct wing successfully deflected all the facts that obviously prove not by theory but the fact how harmful their ideology has been to our nation...though I still shake my head in wonderment as the right wing repeats a similar mantras in their echo chambers on cable TV even supposing we are able to simply simply look back and see what havoc they have wrought..great book ought to be a classic in how propaganda may be successful
Pity the Billionaire: The Hard-Times Swindle and the Unlikely Comeback of the Right [Hardcover] Description:
From the bestselling author of What's the Matter with Kansas?, a wonderfully insightful and sardonic look at why the worst economy since the 1930s has brought about the revival of conservatism
Economic catastrophe usually brings social protest and demands for change—or at least it's supposed to. But when Thomas Frank set out in 2009 to look for expressions of American discontent, all he could find were loud demands that the economic system be made even harsher on the recession's victims and that society's traditional winners receive even grander prizes. The American Right, which had seemed moribund after the election of 2008, was strangely reinvigorated by the arrival of hard times. The Tea Party movement demanded not that we question the failed system but that we reaffirm our commitment to it. Republicans in Congress embarked on a bold strategy of total opposition to the liberal state. And TV phenom Glenn Beck demonstrated the commercial potential of heroic paranoia and the purest libertarian economics.
In Pity the Billionaire, Frank, the great chronicler of American paradox, examines the peculiar mechanism by which dire economic circumstances have delivered wildly unexpected political results. Using firsthand reporting, a deep knowledge of the American Right, and a wicked sense of humor, he gives us the first full diagnosis of the cultural malady that has transformed collapse into profit, reconceived the Founding Fathers as heroes from an Ayn Rand novel, and enlisted the powerless in a fan club for the prosperous. The understanding Frank reaches is at once startling, original, and profound.
Pity the Billionaire: The Hard-Times Swindle and the Unlikely Comeback of the Right [Hardcover] Editorial reviews:
Thomas Frank is the author of Pity the Billionaire, The Wrecking Crew, What's the Matter with Kansas?, and One Market Under God. A former opinion columnist for The Wall Street Journal, Frank is the founding editor of The Baffler and a monthly columnist for Harper's. He lives outside Washington, D.C.
Pity the Billionaire: The Hard-Times Swindle and the Unlikely Comeback of the Right [Hardcover] Details:
- Hardcover: 240 pages
- Publisher: Metropolitan Books (January 3, 2012)
- Language: English
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