| PITY THE BILLIONAIRE The Hard-Times Swindle and the Unlikely Comeback of the Right Thomas Frank New York: Metropolitan Books, January 2012 |
Rating: 5.0 High |
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| ISBN-13 978-0-8050-9369-8 | ||||
| ISBN-10 0-8050-9369-9 | 225pp. | HC | $25.00 | |
| Page 38: | "Forbes magazine fairly trembled with ancien régime anxiety." |
| Punctuation: S/B in italics. |
| Page 67: | "...a 2009 Tea Party pamphlet called Spread This Wealth." |
| Punctuation: highlighted word S/B in italics. (Although this format, with the first and third words of the title italicized, while the second is not, might reflect just the opposite formatting on the actual pamphlet.) |
| Page 81: | "Markets must triumph everywhere, they tell us, but spondulics must never mix with statesmanship." |
| Spondulics: a slang term for money. Gangsters and jazzmen used it in the early twentieth century. |
| Page 94: | "Glenn Beck also glories to remind the world of his small-town, small-business roots, and throughout the fall of 2009, the TV host could be found protecting the pale flame of small-business populism as it flickered unsteadily in the socialistic winds blowing from Washington, DC." |
| I am so going to steal that phrase. |
| Page 119: | "...and convinced itself on the basis of this one clue that a cadre of left-wingers were planning all manner of offenses against democracy including, in some tellings, the overthrow of capitalism itself, with the financial crisis as a pretext." |
| Number error: S/B "was planning". |
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