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  <default_description>Nationally syndicated radio host and bestselling author Thom Hartmann exposes the covert war conservatives, and corporations are waging against America's middle class?a war that's reducing the rest of us to a politically impotent working poor. This book asks: How did this happen? Who's benefiting? And how can we stop it?</default_description>
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    <body><![CDATA[Acclaimed radio host and renowned author, Thom Hartmann, does it again, providing a provocative look at one of America's most ignored social and political issues- the immanent demise of the middle class. <br/><br/>Hartmann offers an historical perspective to back up his positions, often referring ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1413686">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Not a whole lot new here if one is already familiar with the progressive agenda -- lots of talk about healthcare, the military industrial complex, the prison industrial complex, the evils of corporations. The remedies are all unions, singlepayer healthcare, etc. <br/><br/>However, this book is use...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15457202">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Most of this book is probably a &quot;Michael Moore-ish&quot; version of Lou Dobbs' latest book. In other words, it deals mostly with how the middle class is being squeezed more and more, and that it's mostly the Republicans' fault. However, the author is not beholden to the &quot;D&quot; (as in Dem...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3583344">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Thom Hartmann explains in simple language how the right wing conservative movement is out to destroy the middle class, and eliminate all of FDR's New Deal policies that helped create it.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Amazing, it solidified my opinions on how the elite wealthy corporation's war on the working class has been successful for 100 years.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Information good so far but slanted perspective may drive away readers who can't hear the information over the rehtoric.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Republicans are the devil, Reagan ruined America...this book was just preaching to the choir. I got bored with it rather quickly.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[My view of this book is that its Thom's weakest offer.  If you listen to his radio show then this book is redundant.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Great book. I don't think that I really need to explain much much because the title says it all.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[thom hartmann should be president.  a recipe for saving america from corporatocracy.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[One of the few to self teach myself economics]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book really helped me put a lot of what happened to our country over the past 8 years in a historical perspective.  This is a well-researched book that is broken up into topics that are easy for a lot of people to understand.  It also contains a call-to-action checklist in the last chapter that...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40648098">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Kind of depressing in the same way that Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight was, however, very enlightening.  He concisely explains how the middle class is disappearing in America and what we can do to reverse the trend.  Now I'm even more inspired to write letters to the editor and support unions and li...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18882832">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[OK...so I didn't read this cover to cover. Joel and passed it back and forth when we were feeling particularly alienated as members of our dying middle class! Very clearly lays out the corporatist agenda and explains why it is bad for you! Unless you are a corporatist. In that case, you will hate th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14065555">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Excellent explanation about how/why America is in the econmic crisis we're in today-and what we can do about it.  Hartmann is an intelligent, independent, critical thinker who knows history and can &quot;connect the dots.&quot;  He is also my favorite talk radio host who just happens to be based in ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24513436">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[For the uninformed, this book presents a strong one-sided argument.<br/>For those that are already informed, and in agreement, it makes you raise your fist in a brief moment of outraged triumph and scream &quot;HELL YEAH!&quot;<br/>But his endless rant runs tiresome after the initial esctatic fist...]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It's a very informative look at the history of the U.S. through an economic perspective, and how the neoconservatives have purposely destroyed the well-being of the nation for their own financial gain. There may be a slightly liberal slant.]]></body>
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