from bookworx

Many good reasons to read this book, perhaps aloud in 12th grade as a cautionary tale. To remind that a Trickle Down economy is exactly what we have always had, operative words; Trickle + Down. No revelations here but plenty of apt summation, extrapolation and projection. Worth sharing with your ...

from ironicqueery

I read this for a bookgroup I'm in. It wasn't a book I'd choose to read on my own, but it looked somewhat interesting so I thought I'd give it a go, on audiobook. The first half of the book was a big turn-off. It seemed like a big compilation of news events for the past several years. Not too man...

from Alloc

Sections on education and how to fix it are 100% naive, but the rest of the book is spot on...

from jcbrunner

What a great title and what a horribly lazy execution. This is essentially an undigested collection of Arianna Huffington's clipping files and bookmarks. She is even too lazy to check out the underlying sources of a media quote. Any sentient being who follows the news will learn nothing new in th...

from malrubius

Audiobook. Pretty good book. Humanizes the current recession, which the MSM only seems to gauge in terms of Wall St numbers, which no longer have anything to do with mainstream America. Offers ideas for solutions. Calls for accountability. More subversive than expected.