By Thomas Frank
From the bestselling writer of What's the problem with Kansas?, a superbly insightful and sardonic examine why the worst economic climate because the Nineteen Thirties has caused the revival of conservatism
Economic disaster frequently brings social protest and calls for for change—or at the very least it's presupposed to. but if Thomas Frank set out in 2009 to seem for expressions of yankee discontent, all he may possibly locate have been loud calls for that the commercial procedure be made even harsher at the recession's sufferers and that society's conventional winners obtain even grander prizes. the yankee correct, which had appeared moribund after the election of 2008, used to be unusually reinvigorated through the coming of demanding occasions. The Tea celebration circulation demanded now not that we query the failed process yet that we reaffirm our dedication to it. Republicans in Congress launched into a daring technique of overall competition to the liberal country. and television phenom Glenn Beck established the economic capability of heroic paranoia and the purest libertarian economics.
In Pity the Billionaire, Frank, the good chronicler of yankee paradox, examines the atypical mechanism through which dire financial conditions have brought wildly unforeseen political effects. utilizing firsthand reporting, a deep wisdom of the yank correct, and a depraved humorousness, he supplies us the 1st complete analysis of the cultural illness that has reworked cave in into revenue, reconceived the Founding Fathers as heroes from an Ayn Rand novel, and enlisted the powerless in a fan membership for the wealthy. the certainty Frank reaches is right away startling, unique, and profound.
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Depression-era populists invoked the Boston Tea get together as a rallying cry opposed to company greed. the following, Thomas Frank (What's the problem With Kansas?) lays out with biting wit how today's conservatives co-opted that image and solid a pseudopopulist entrance to guard the enablers of industry failure. The enemy of the ninety nine percentage, he contends, is extra the highbrow than the robber baron. "Erasing classification distinctions," Frank writes, "is one of many conservative revival's nice habitual techniques." possibly the Occupy move is his unmentioned antidote, and his well timed e-book a consultant to assist actual populists elude their saboteurs.
-- Mother Jones
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