Oh my God! This book is such a phenomenal and spell-binding eye-opener! Some non-fiction books I read, I just want the author to furnish validation to opinions I already hold. This book, on the other hand, reveals so many things I had no idea about, in an extremely entertaining fashion. The chapter on Ayn Rand, and Alan Greenspan's membership in her circle, is worth the price of admission all by itself. (Maybe it helps that I forced myself to finish Rand's Atlas Shrugged a hundred years ago; it wasn't horrid, it did have a message, but talk about NOT saying what you have to say and then sitting down...) Anyway, that chapter is titled "The Biggest Asshole in the Universe" (referring to Greenspan). So, if you find yourself in a bookstore, whet your appetite with this one.

While we're busy being distracted with whether American born children of immigrants should have reduced citizenship, and other distractions du jour, the country is being swindled. SWFs (sovereign wealth funds, largely oil-generated mega-pools of wealth) are buying up pieces of the infrastructure of America at laughable prices, to fill state budget holes (e.g., the Chicago Skyway, all the parking meters in Chicago, are now not public property, but owned by largely foreign private individuals). But SWFs are just the theme of one of the chapters. Each chapter focuses on a different theme, and they'll all make you sick that
our politicians are willing to go along for the right to campaign contributions. We're being sold out, America.