Economic meltdown usually brings calls for change. Or it’s supposed to.
But when Thomas Frank set out to find them in America today, all he heard were loud demands that the losers be hit harder and that the winners get more.
Using first-hand reporting, a deep political understanding and a wicked sense of humour, Frank examines the weird double-think that has enlisted the powerless in a fan club for the prosperous. Pity the Billionaire takes us on a wild road-trip through the strange 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 new speed limit, conservative America has stamped hard on the accelerator. It is essential reading for understanding how we all got to where we are, and how we might get out.
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
ISBN: 9780099570271
Number of pages: 240
Weight: 171 g
Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 15 mm
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 scene. In 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
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