About the Author:
Arianna Huffington is the cofounder and editor in chief of Huffington Post, a nationally syndicated columnist, and the author of thirteen books. She is also the co-host of Left, Right & Centre, American public radio's popular political roundtable program. She was named to Time magazine's list of the world's one hundred most influential people and to the Financial Times' list of fifty people who shaped the decade. Originally from Greece, she moved to England when she was sixteen and graduated from Cambridge University with an MA in economics.
Review:
From Booklist -Starred Review Huffington argues that overspending on war at the expense of domestic issues and the alarming decline of the middle class are troubling signals that the US is losing its economic, political, and social stability... She pinpoints the beginning of the decline to the Reagan era, with its denigration of a government safety net. But she is nonpartisan in assigning responsibility to George W. Bush and Bill Clinton for supporting monied interests over those of the middle class; she then takes aim at Obama for expending more money to bail out Wall Street than Main Street. She also points to loss of manufacturing jobs, outsourcing, and globalization, all with emphasis on corporate profits at the expense of workers. Although the US has faced similarly fearful times during the late 1800s and the Great Depression, the middle class was not threatened as it is today...An engaging analysis of troubling economic and political trends. An alarming account - Joseph Stiglitz A voice of conscience in a time when we need conscience more than ever. - Elizabeth Warren, Harvard Law School professor and author of The Two-Income Trap In precise, graphic, and shocking terms that will bring the crisis home to everyone...Huffington explains why special interests have become too powerful, money dominates our politics, and there is no sense of empathy or even shame amongst our elite. The national spirit that built America...lies in tatters. - Simon Johnson, professor of economics at MIT Sloan School of Business and co-author of 13 Bankers Huffington is one of the very few people in America committed to saying things the way they are and to expose the monstrous elephants in the room ignored by the dominant discourse -Nassim Nicholas Taleb, author The Black Swan A book for our times - Robert B. Reich, former US Secretary of Labor
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