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DESCRIPTION:Hosted by Richard Wolinsky\n\nFrom 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 a 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\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/2012/01/05/18704219.php
SUMMARY:Thomas Frank: Pity Billionaire: Unlikely Resurgence of America Right
LOCATION:Berkeley Hillside Club\n2286 Cedar St\nBerkeley, CA 
 94709\n510-848-3227\nhttp://www.hillsideclub.org
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/01/05/18704219.php
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