Pity the billionaire, the hard times swindle and the unlikely comeback of the Right, Thomas Frank
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Pity the billionaire, the hard times swindle and the unlikely comeback of the Right, Thomas Frank
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Pity the billionaire
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Thomas Frank
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the hard times swindle and the unlikely comeback of the Right
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In Pity the Billionaire, Frank examines the peculiar mechanism by which dire economic circumstances have delivered unexpected political results. Using firsthand reporting, a knowledge of the American Right, and a wicked sense of humor, he gives us the first full diagnosis of the cultural malady that has transformed collapse into profit, reconceived the Founding Fathers as heroes from an Ayn Rand novel, and enlisted the powerless in a fan club for the prosperous
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End Times -- 1929 : The Sequel -- Hold the Note and Change the Key -- Nervous System -- Making a Business Of It -- A Mask for Privilege -- Mimesis -- Say, Don't You Remember -- He Whom a Dream Hath Possessed Knoweth No More of Doubting -- The Technocratic Silence
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- Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009 + Social aspects -- United States
- Free enterprise -- United States -- Public opinion -- History -- 21st century
- Public opinion -- United States -- History -- 21st century
- Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009 + Political aspects -- United States
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- Political culture -- United States -- History -- 21st century
- United States -- Social conditions -- 21st century
- United States -- Politics and government -- 2009-
- United States -- Economic conditions -- 2009-
- Conservatism -- United States -- History -- 21st century
- Rich people -- United States -- Public opinion -- History -- 21st century
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- Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009 + Social aspects -- United States
- Free enterprise -- United States -- Public opinion -- History -- 21st century
- Public opinion -- United States -- History -- 21st century
- Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009 + Political aspects -- United States
- Audiobooks
- Political culture -- United States -- History -- 21st century
- United States -- Social conditions -- 21st century
- United States -- Politics and government -- 2009-
- United States -- Economic conditions -- 2009-
- Conservatism -- United States -- History -- 21st century
- Rich people -- United States -- Public opinion -- History -- 21st century
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