Jim Hightower (Author of Thieves in High Places)

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Jim Hightower's Blog

Jim Hightower isn't a Goodreads Author (yet), but they do have a blog, so here are some recent posts imported from their feed.

Who checks the "fact" checkers?

Wow, so many "facts," so little insight.

I've been factoided! As might be the case with your newspaper, the Austin daily uses a feature that's quite the fad in revenue-strained papers, especially the chain operations (ours is a Cox product, based in Atlanta). The feature is called PolitiFact, which immodestly claims to be "sorting out the truth in politics."

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Books by Jim Hightower

Average rating: 3.74 · 368 ratings · 53 reviews · 15 distinct works

	Thieves in High Places: They've Stolen Our Country and It's Time to Take It Back 3.73 avg rating — 109 ratings — published 2003 — 4 editions	My rating:
	There's Nothing in the Middle of the Road but Yellow Stripes and Dead Armadillos: A Work of Political Subversion 3.75 avg rating — 83 ratings — published 1997 — 3 editions	My rating:
	If the Gods Had Meant Us to Vote, They'd Have Given Us Candidates 3.88 avg rating — 68 ratings — published 2000 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Swim Against the Current: Even a Dead Fish Can Go with the Flow 3.67 avg rating — 46 ratings — published 2008 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Let's Stop Beating Around the Bush: More Political Subversion from Jim Hightower 3.42 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 2004 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Let's Stop Beating Around the Bush and Thieves in High Places 3.17 avg rating — 6 ratings	My rating:
	Hard Tomatoes, Hard Times: The Original Hightower Report and Other Recent Reports 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1978	My rating:
	Eat Your Heart Out: Food Profiteering in America 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1976 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Hard Tomatoes, Hard Times 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating:
	Cable News Confidential: My Misadventures in Corporate Media by Jeff Cohen, Jim Hightower (Foreword by) 3.50 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2006	My rating: