I enjoyed this book when I read it about a week and a half ago, but now that I sit down to write about it I can't remember any of it clearly, and I think that might be because it didn't give me anything new to think about, I think this might because Thomas Frank doesn't have anything new to say. I loved "What's the Matter with Kansas?"--a book that gave me a new perspective from which to analyze the growth of the new right, a book that helped explain why working class white voters vote Republican against their own interests--and I liked "The Wrecking Crew" too, but now I find myself feeling that this brief book "Pity the Billionaire" is a mere rehash of Frank's old arguments. Sure, he makes perceptive comments about Ayn Rand and her Objectivists, the way they eagerly adopt Stalinist strategies while denouncing socialist principles, and the book's peroration--an apocalyptic description of the consequences of a 2012 Republican presidential victory--is without doubt both witty and devastating, but much of the rest--the Tea Party observations in particular--is old hat, and I am beginning to sense that Frank is an abler polemicist and stylist than he is a thinker. Which is fine . . . except that analysis is what I need--not more polemics, not even when they are cloaked in an elegant style.