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 enlarge | Author: Thomas Frank
Publisher: Metropolitan Books
Category: Book
List Price: $25.00
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Rating:  36 reviews
Sales Rank: 6125
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 384
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 5.9 x 1.3
ISBN: 0805079882
Dewey Decimal Number: 973.92
EAN: 9780805079883
ASIN: 0805079882
Publication Date: August 5, 2008
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| Customer Reviews:
 Wrecking Crew October 15, 2008
Louis Levy
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Decently researched and well written. This is a book that can make you feel it is still ok to be liberal.
 Every Man for HImself October 9, 2008
T. McLaughlin (Chatham, NJ)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
The arrogance and completely unwarranted self-confidence with which the conservatives presided over the fall of the U. S. was always evident to anyone who could stand to look at Bush's smirky face. This self-esteem masquerading as virtue and superior intelligence runs through this account of greed and hypocrisy in high places. It's interesting to learn the details, but I don't think too many readers will be surprised. Non-readers, the vast electorate, might be, but they'll never know. br / br /All the events that ensue from the great crash taking place now will affect a lot more people than this book or any other book but I suppose there will be some slight, fugitive pleasure in knowing how the all- knowing smug undermined our culture with their unregulated markets, delusional and self-righteous forms of Christianity and imperialistic good will.
a great and insightful book October 6, 2008
Barbara Molfese (Colorado)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
The Wrecking Crew is one of the best books I've read this year. Many events of the last 30 years that seemed unintelligible at the time are now explained. I've been engaged in my own sphere of influence with like-minded people, paying no heed to conservative talk-shows. After reading The Wrecking Crew, much is now clear. I recommend it highly! I bought three more copies for friends and family.
"The Wrecking Crew" in the midst of a wreck October 3, 2008
Genie Morton
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I've still done little more than scan "The Wrecking Crew" during this week of deciding if the "wreckers" should be given $700 billion. I come from Hofstadter's time and find my eyes blinking at the audacious ugliness that envelops us in so many ways. I'm old and the caretaker of an 80-year-old totally disabled husband. I have too many books already. However, I saw Thomas Frank intervewed on CSPAN--his honest self-assessment about his own changing political orientations led me to order his book. I find it difficult reading, but it is not because Frank isn't an excellent, lucid writer--it's because we're in the midst of the mind-boggling results of the "The Wrecking Crew". br /
 thinly disguised diatribe, anecdotes carefully chosen to make his points... October 3, 2008
SteveNY (New York, NY USA)
7 out of 42 found this review helpful
Its easy to confuse "research" with persuasive writing. Peeling back the onion, the facts are 1). The author has a clear agenda 2). the author entered in to the book deal with a clear bias and agenda 3). he spent quite a bit of time to gather anecdotes to prove his already decided mind 4). he spent some time to string together carefully chosen stories, weaving a web of persuasive writing around it. 5). any view can be supported by such efforts, in defense or offense about any issue one chooses. 6). If you want to read about how awful conservatives are, this is fun reading 7). if you want unbiased facts, don't bother to pick this one up
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