Pity the Billionaire

New York Times Bestseller: A “witty and highly readable” account of the wildly unexpected cultural and political reactions to the Great Recession ( Financial Times ). From the author of What’s the Matter with Kansas? , this is an updated and expanded edition of “a brilliant expose 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, author of Nickel and Dimed ). Econo