[bksvol-discuss] Non-fiction submission
- From: "Deborah Murray" <blinkeeblink@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "BookShare" <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2008 23:46:08 -0400
Hi all,
I've just submitted for validation The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives rule
by Thomas Frank
The usual pre-validation has been done. Read through, page numbers and
chapter titles protected, and junk characters removed. K1000 ranked spelling
99.89%.
[From the Book jacket[
FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH KANSAS?, A
JAW-DROPPING INVESTIGATION OF THE DECADES OF DELIBERATE-AND LUCRATIVE
CONSERVATIVE MISRULE
In his previous book, Thomas Frank explained why working America votes for
politicians who reserve their favors for the rich. Now, in The Wrecking
Crew, Frank examines the blundering and corrupt Washington those politicians
have given us.
Casting his eye back to the early days of the conservative revolution, Frank
describes the rise of a ruling coalition dedicated to dismantling
government. But rather than cutting down the big government they claim to
hate, conservatives have simply sold it off, turning public policy into a
private-sector bidding war. Washington itself has been remade into a golden
landscape of super-wealthy suburbs and gleaming lobbyist headquarters-the
wages of government-by entrepreneurship that has been practiced so
outrageously by figures such as Jack Abramoff.
It is no coincidence, Frank argues, that the same politicians who guffaw at
the idea of effective government have installed a regime in which
incompetence is the rule. Nor will the country easily shake off the
consequences of deliberate misgovernment through the usual election
remedies. Obsessed with achieving a lasting victory, conservatives have
taken pains to enshrine the free market as the permanent creed of state.
Happy validating!
Deborah
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