Pity the Billionaire

Resumen del libro

A New York Times Bestseller

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 exposé of the most breathtaking ruse in American political history: how the Right turned the biggest capitalist breakdown since 1929 into an opportunity for themselves. Barbara Ehrenreich

From the bestselling author of What's the Matter with Kansas this witty and highly provocative book asks a simple question: How is it possible that the disastrous collapse of the free market economy in 2008 could have heralded a popular revival not of the left but of the right?

In this brilliant, funny, and disturbing tour de force, Frank analyzes the sleight of hand involved in the right's resurgence, and the creation and promotion of the Tea Party movement whose demands will continue to benefit the rich and powerful. This great chronicler of American paradox dissects the contradictions at the heart of the country's politics and in this dazzling book once again shows himself as one of the best leftwing writers America has produced (The Guardian).

THOMAS FRANK is the author of 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.

A roadmap for everyone who wonders, while watching the hodgepodge of Republican presidential condidates: How the heck did this happen? CNN.com (Fortune Blog)

Depression-era populists invoked the Boston Tea Party as a rallying cry against corporate greed...Thomas Frank lays out with biting wit how today's conservatives co-opted that symbol and forged a pseudopopulist front to defend the enablers of market failure. Mother Jones

Pity the Billionaire deserves to be read by right and left alike...Provocative...Witty and highly readable. The Financial Times (London)