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    <body><![CDATA[The weakness of this book is that it is largely preaching to the choir.  Yes, the national Republican Party is run by a bunch of lying bastards who hate minorities, the poor, democracy, and Christianity.  BUT...you've either accepted that or you've closed your eyes in denial.  Writing a partisan tra...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8598993">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Outstanding book. Krugman’s historical treatment of the conservative movement and the politics of race is unflinching. I’ve heard the criticism that he often cherry picks his facts in order to bolster an argument however, the data he presents leaves his call for a return to New Deal style polici...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13716937">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The Conscience of a Liberal, by Paul Krugman<br/><br/>Krugman, who just garnered a Nobel Prize in Economics this past year, is an unapologetic liberal. Or more specifically, as he likes to re-clarify at the end of his two-hundred-some page treatise, progressive. Coming out just a year before the r...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41016338">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[As is the case with many political books, I could see some accusing Krugman of simply &quot;preaching to the choir,&quot; but in reality Krugman writes with a scholarly, even tone that I could imagine convincing even some conservatives. Krugman's book is extremely interesting, not coming across as t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57854777">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I found the central thesis of the book interesting, but the case for it hardly made and hardly even argued.  Granted that the book was written for a wide audience, and getting into economics would just scare off most people, but it does limit the value of the book as a polemic tool.<br/>The thesis ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55710996">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I hated the semester of economics we had to take in high school. Nothing we studied made sense to me. Probably my nascent liberalism picked up on my teacher's conservatism, and it wasn't really the subject I hated but the way he taught it.<br/><br/>So once I realized this book was primarily about ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69861498">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[My Wednesday book group just finished this book - written by Krugman in 2007 with a new forward in 2009.  Very good book, informative, interesting and easy to read -he makes it all so understandable.  Hard to believe some of his sweeping generalizations but helpful in understanding part of how we go...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48265318">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[At first, I wasn't sure if I was going to like this book.  To be honest, I thought Krugman was just going to be too liberal for me.  I was expecting to be bowled over with statistics and numbers, and I imagined I would read this book thinking, &quot;yeah, but.. I'm not so sure if I buy this argument...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51638560">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a hard book to rate.  In terms of the information presented, I would give it 4.5 stars, at least.  But as for presentation, organization and readability, I give it 1 star, at most.  All in all, I give it 2.5 stars rounded DOWN to 2 stars (that's all I can feel good about giving it.  I could...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55278160">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was excellent.<br/><br/>According to Krugman, &quot;...political change in the form of rising polarization has been a major cause of rising inequality.&quot;  The sad story goes like this: <br/><br/>&quot;Over the course of the 1970's, radicals of the right determined to roll back the ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56428510">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a must read for these political times.  Agree or disagree—it’s an extremely interesting read.  In the book, Paul Krugman studies the past eighty years of American history in the context of economic inequality. A central theme is the reemergence of both economic and political inequality s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56774662">more...</a>]]></body>
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