Winner-Take-All Politics by Hacker & Pierson available at Amazon.com
The book is subtitled: How Washington Made the Rich Richer – And Turned Its Back on the Middle Class
This book needs another review like a hole in the head. Typing the full title into Google resulted in close to 30,000 hits. But hey, why not!
First and foremost, while I found the book deeply troubling and depressing, it is an important book to read if you want to really understand what is happening in Washington currently. This book really did not tell me anything that I did not intuitively already know from decades of watching the American political scene. It did reaffirm and document my intuition. Continue reading “Winner-Take-All Politics”