Reading this book gave me the answer why Chris Hayes is bouncing in his chair all the time. It's his brain. I thought it was caffeine. Hayes is smart, informed, intellectually curious and an analytical buzzsaw. And he's a hell of a writer, too. Having just finished Maddow's Drift about how American political power put us on a permanent warpath, reading this book finished the analysis for me with the rest of what's going on in the American economy, media, corporations, banking and our own households. We've been outclassed. Literally, and with no apologies from the .01 percent that figured how to pick our pockets and keep the money, along with the get out of jail free card. Hayes' most biting observation is that while the people with the financial fist on the neck of the rest of us talk, talk - and may in fact believe, that there is a level playing field of opportunity; the power elite also enjoy complete awareness that there is no equality of outcome. It's rigged thataway. While I finished reading this book, Mitt Romney is bussing around Republican strongholds in Michigan, telling voters that he pulled himself up by his bootstraps, that he's just a regular guy, that he started with nothing, and he made himself the success he appears today. Anybody buying that story needs to read this book. And a whole bunch of other books, too. Hayes called this book "The Twilight of the Elites." We'll see if the twilight bit turns out to be so any time soon.