Pity the Billionaire by Thomas Frank
Suitable for understanding how we all got to where we are, and how we might get out, this book takes us on a wild road-trip through the landscape of the American Right, the Tea Party and Glenn Beck, makes sense of a topsy-turvy world and shows how instead of complying with the speed limit, conservative America has stamped hard on the accelerator.
The thinking person's Michael Moore * New York Times Book Review *
Trenchant and witty -- Alexandra Frean * The Times *
An astonishing story * Observer *
No one fools Thomas Frank, who is the sharpest, funniest, most intellectually voracious political commentator on the sceneIn Pity the Billionaire he has written a brilliant expose of the most breath-taking ruse in American political history: how the right turned the biggest capitalist breakdown since 1929 into an opportunity for themselves. * Barbara Ehrenreich *
Tom Frank has the Tea Parties in his sights! Brisk and searing and deeply informed by the lessons of history (shocking notion!), Frank's latest guide for the perplexed is nothing less than a precious gift to us. Read it, and finally--You. Will. Understand. * Rick Perlstein *
Trenchant and witty -- Alexandra Frean * The Times *
An astonishing story * Observer *
No one fools Thomas Frank, who is the sharpest, funniest, most intellectually voracious political commentator on the sceneIn Pity the Billionaire he has written a brilliant expose of the most breath-taking ruse in American political history: how the right turned the biggest capitalist breakdown since 1929 into an opportunity for themselves. * Barbara Ehrenreich *
Tom Frank has the Tea Parties in his sights! Brisk and searing and deeply informed by the lessons of history (shocking notion!), Frank's latest guide for the perplexed is nothing less than a precious gift to us. Read it, and finally--You. Will. Understand. * Rick Perlstein *
Thomas Frank is the author of The Wrecking Crew, What's the Matter with America?, 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.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780099570271 |
| ISBN 10 | 0099570270 |
| Title | Pity the Billionaire |
| Author | Thomas Frank |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 2012-10-04 |
| Number of pages | 240 |
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