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DESCRIPTION:From the bestselling author of What’s the Matter with Kansas? – a 
 stunningly insightful and sardonic look at why the worst economy since the 
 1930s has incurred the inchoate wrath of tea party conservatism. 
 \n\nEconomic catastrophe usually brings social protest and demands for 
 change, but when Thomas Frank set out in 2009 to look for expressions of 
 American discontent, all he could find were loud demands that the economic 
 system be made even harsher on the recession’s victims and that 
 society’s traditional winners be given even grander shares. The American 
 Right, apparently moribund after the election of 2008, was peculiarly 
 reinvigorated by the arrival of serious hard times. The Tea Party movement 
 demanded not that we question the failed system (as the Occupy Movement 
 insisted) but that we reaffirm our commitment to its worst excesses. 
 Republicans in Congress embarked on\na grim strategy of total opposition to 
 the liberal state. \n\nIn Pity the Billionaire Thomas Frank, wily 
 chronicler of American paradox, examines the bizarre mechanism by which 
 dire economic circumstances have delivered wildly unexpected political 
 results. Using firsthand reporting, a deep knowledge of the American Right, 
 and a wick sense of humor, he provides the first full diagnosis of our 
 dangerous cultural malady.\n\n“No one fools Thomas Frank, who is the 
 sharpest, funniest, most intellectually voracious political commentator on 
 the scene…he has written a brilliant expose of the most breathtaking ruse 
 in American political history…”— Barbara Ehrenreich\n\n“Pity the 
 Billionaire? Hell. Pity us all.”  — James K. Galbraith\n\nHosted by 
 Richard Wolinsky\n\n$12 advance tickets: 800-838-3006 \nor: Pegasus Books 
 (3 locations), Mrs. Dalloway’s, Moe’s Books, Walden Pond, DIESEL, A 
 Bookstore,   in SF - Modern Times Bookstore  ($15 door) \nInformation: 
 www.kpfa.org/events \n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/12/19/18703088.php
SUMMARY:THOMAS FRANK: Pity the Billionaire: The Unlikely Resurgence of the American Right
LOCATION:The Hillside Club\n2286 Cedar St\nBerkeley, CA 94709
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/12/19/18703088.php
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