The 'Wrecking Crew' that nearly took down America

What is maven reading now?

“The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule” by Thomas Frank, and she’s absolutely loving it. The time just flies by on the treadmill, reading this engaging, yet important book. I enjoy books written by journalists, since they’re so readable ( Hemingway was first a reporter) and this one is.

Frank completely, and with dark humor, dissects the so-called conservative revolution so that we can finally see it for the completly cynical sham that it is, and better understand why it’s currently in a death spiral.

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