The Great American Stickup by Robert Scheer

picture in black and white of Benjamin Franklin from money with tidtle and subtitle book jacetThe Great American Stickup: How Reagan Republicans and Clinton Democrats enriched Wall Street while mugging Main Street by Robert Scheer, (2010)

 

Dark Money by Jane Mayer

She has a video interview about Dark Money on YouTube.Radical Right

dark moneyDark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right has been getting a lot of attention, quiet rightly since it discusses the now infamous Libertarian/Bircher Koch brothers and their billions and billions and billions and, by God, you peons deserve NOTHING! NOTHING, DAMN YOU TAKERS! EAT SHIT AND DIE! Though then I’m not sure how they would have enough workers to destroy the environment to increase their wealth JUST BECAUSE THEY CAN beyond 86 billion dollars.

 

White Trash by Nancy Isenberg

book on class in AmericaWhite Trash: The 400-Year Untold history of Class in America by Nancy Isenberg (2016)

Equality as an ideal, in the abstract, serves as the theme of American democracy. It is false, of course, as a reality.

Rich white men never willingly gave any power, money, or anything else to anyone unless they were forced to do so. Married women were denied legal existence being subsumed upon marriage only as a adjunct to the husband. And were legally chattel back in the day.

Americans are not and have never been living in a “classless society.”

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